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Thursday 24 February 2011

Two tier workforce set to return as axe falls on fair pensions

As expected, the Con Dem Government is set to introduce measures which will remove pension rights for outsourced workers. One of the most significant (and hard fought) concessions won from the previous Labour Government was the protection of pensions and other employment rights for workers transferred out of public sector employment.

It was a major constraint on marketisation of services singularly preventing a race to the bottom on labour costs. Now after sustained lobbying by private and voluntary sector interests Chancellor Osborne (aka Pavlov’s Dog) is about to consult on the desired socially regressive measures:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8344386/Teachers-and-nurses-face-pensions-being-slashed-under-government-plans.html