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BT blocked from third attempt to swap pensions index
BT blocked from third attempt to swap pensions index

BT will not be able to swap the index used to uprate part of its pension scheme after the Supreme Court denied permission to appeal, closing all legal avenues.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 09 July 2019
TUC delegates pass Prospect motion to tackle gender pension gap
TUC delegates pass Prospect motion to tackle gender pension gap

Attendees at a Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference have endorsed a Prospect motion which called for action to tackle the gender pension gap.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 08 March 2019
Govt must justify planned changes to state pension age
Govt must justify planned changes to state pension age

The government will have to justify proposed changes to the state pension age (SPA) after a Prospect petition secured over 12,000 signatures.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 19 June 2018
BT managers approve pensions deal
BT managers approve pensions deal

BT members of the Prospect union have voted to approve a controversial pension restructure ahead of the defined benefit (DB) scheme's closure in April.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 08 January 2018
Union calls on David Gauke to delay state pension age increase
Union calls on David Gauke to delay state pension age increase

A "period of stability" for the state pension age is needed and so the government should postpone any increase decision, the union Prospect has said.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 14 June 2017
Nuclear workers accept 'best achievable' pension deal
Nuclear workers accept 'best achievable' pension deal

Nuclear specialists and managers have voted in favour of reforms which will see their retirement fund based on career average earnings rather than final salary from next April.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 30 May 2017
Workers at AWE vote overwhelmingly for strike action over pensions
Workers at AWE vote overwhelmingly for strike action over pensions

Workers at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over the company’s plans to close its defined benefit (DB) scheme.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 01 November 2016
MPs to debate advice given to pensioners at UK Atomic Energy Agency
MPs to debate advice given to pensioners at UK Atomic Energy Agency

MPs are to debate the quality of advice given to pensioners that transferred into a defined benefit (DB) scheme set up after part of the UK's nuclear industry was privatised.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 26 October 2016
AWE workers to be balloted over 'insulting' DB closure plans
AWE workers to be balloted over 'insulting' DB closure plans

Prospect is set to ballot workers at Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) for strike action over the company's plans to close its defined benefit (DB) scheme.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 11 October 2016
Govt to make announcement on PPF cap increase 'shortly'
Govt to make announcement on PPF cap increase 'shortly'

The pensions minister has confirmed the government hopes "to make an announcement shortly" on implementing changes to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) compensation cap, after several delays.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 07 September 2016
PPF compensation cap changes face further delay
PPF compensation cap changes face further delay

Expected changes to the PPF compensation cap to give increased benefits to those with more than 20 years’ service have been delayed. Helen Morrissey reports.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 24 March 2016
United Utility workers in strike vote over DB closure
United Utility workers in strike vote over DB closure

GMB members at United Utilities in the North-West are being balloted over industrial action in response to plans to close the company's defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 13 January 2016
Babcock workers to vote on strike action over pension cap

Babcock workers are voting on whether to take industrial action against proposals to cap pension benefits.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 24 March 2015
Prospect accepts reform deal

Civil servant scheme members of Prospect have voted by four to one to accept the government's reform package for the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme after a year of negotiations.

  • Employee Benefits
  • 15 May 2012
TPR holds firm on valuation guidance timing

The Pensions Regulator has ruled out releasing its forthcoming scheme valuation guidance before April despite union calls for action.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 16 February 2012
Union pressures TPR to address scheme valuations

Prospect has written to the government to demand action on scheme valuations after the Bank of England announced a third wave of quantitative easing.

  • Defined Benefit
  • 15 February 2012
'Inadequate consultation on inadequate proposals' - unions slam Webb's state pension reform plan

Unions have rejected proposals put forward by pensions minister Steve Webb to reform the basic state pension, saying its cost neutrality "condemns it to failure".

  • Industry
  • 01 July 2011
CPI switch 'bigger raid on pensions' than Brown tax change

Switching pension uprating to Consumer Prices Index is the biggest "raid" on pensions since the change to scheme corporation tax arrangements in 1997, a trade union says.

  • Industry
  • 06 May 2011

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