Pensions

New and updated

• Transfer of undertakings: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated with information on the Government consultation on strengthening pension protection when employees are compulsorily transferred from a local government employer.

• Age discrimination: Public-sector pension changes discriminated against younger judges and firefighters

  Date:

  15 January 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and another v McCloud and others; Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Welsh Ministers and others v Sargeant and others, the Court of Appeal held that the Government's view that "it felt right" to protect older workers with transitional provisions when making changes to pensions for judges and firefighters was insufficient to defend direct age discrimination claims.

• Sharp rise in pension auto-enrolment fines

  Date:

  7 January 2019

  Type:

  News

  The last financial year has seen a sharp rise in the number of businesses fined by the Pensions Regulator for pension auto-enrolment errors, a freedom of information request has shown.

• Workplace pensions

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the Single Financial Guidance Body, which replaces the Pensions Advisory Service, the Money Advice Service and Pension Wise.

• BT loses bid to change pension calculation method

  Date:

  7 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  BT has lost an appeal to change the method it uses to calculate pension increases, which would have affected around 80,000 current and former staff.

• Pensions auto-enrolment

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include the proposed auto-enrolment earnings thresholds for 2019/20.

• State pension

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include the proposed state pension rates for 2019/20.

• Occupational pensions and employment law

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on O'Brien v Ministry of Justice, in which the ECJ considered the calculation of pensions for part-time workers.

• Consultation on collective defined-contribution (CDC) pension schemes

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on the possibility of introducing collective defined-contribution (CDC) pension schemes.

• Women's state pension age rises to 65

  Date:

  7 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  Women qualify for their state pensions at the same age as men - currently 65 - from 6 November 2018. The pension age has been harmonised for both genders, 25 years after the plan was initiated by John Major's government.