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Lord Hutton has published 27 recommendations in his new report on public sector pensions. This follows his interim report in October 2010 which concluded that public service pension schemes were too expensive and unsustainable. The proposed changes are intended to simplify the schemes, be fairer to those on low and moderate earnings, and address socio-economic changes. Hutton advises that final salary public sector pensions should be phased out by 2015 and replaced by a new career average scheme to make the cost of providing those pensions more affordable. He also proposes increasing the normal retirement age for public sector schemes to 65, rising eventually to 68, in line with proposed reforms to state pension age, and building ‘automatic stabilisers’ into new schemes so members either increase their contributions, or take a smaller pension.
There have been warnings that if the proposals are implemented, the lowest paid civil servants will drop out of public sector pension schemes and there will be wide-spread industrial action. It is uncertain at present whether Hutton’s proposals will be adopted by the government; what is certain is that many people will be keeping a close, critical eye on what happens next.
Free movement between the UK and the EU ended on 31 December 2020. Since 1 January 2021, a new points-based immigration system applies to all migrants wanting to come to the UK, whether they are EU citizens or not.
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The Government has announced a consultation exercise into the possible removal of non-compete clauses in employment contracts which will run until 26 February 2021.
The government has now announced further changes to the Job Support Scheme (now renamed the Job Support Scheme Open), with both the percentage of working hours and the employer contribution to unworked hours dropping.
On 14 October 2020, The Restriction of Public Sector Exit Payments Regulations 2020 (the “Regulations”) were made into law and will come into force on 4 November 2020.
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