The Conservative chairman of the Local Government Association has attacked coalition plans to hike council worker pension contributions warning the move would lead to mass opt-outs.
Tory peer Baroness Eaton wrote to Chancellor George Osborne warning him plans to raise an extra £900m of income by 2014/15 by raising contributions by 3 percentage points will lead to a massive opt...
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