Pensions

New and updated

• Workplace pensions

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a reference to an FCA consultation on pension transfer advice.

• Government admits defeat in police pensions legal battle

  Date:

  6 August 2019

  Type:

  News

  The government has conceded defeat over its attempt to alter police pensions in 2015, acknowledging that moving police officers to new police pension schemes, based on their age, is discriminatory.

• Never mind the gender pay gap: here's the gender pensions gap

  Date:

  26 July 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  There have been exhaustive discussions on the gender pay gap, but what about the huge chasm between women's pension wealth and what men are able to accumulate for retirement? Nikki Thompson explains.

• Boris Johnson pledges to 'fix' pension tax allowance rules

  Date:

  10 July 2019

  Type:

  News

  Tory leadership front runner Boris Johnson has vowed to "fix" the pension rules that have led to NHS consultants finding they are better off if they work fewer hours.

• Landmark public sector pension ruling confirmed

  Date:

  28 June 2019

  Type:

  News

  In a decision that will have implications across the public sector, the government has been denied leave to appeal a landmark ruling that pension reforms discriminated against younger workers.

• Occupational pensions and employment law

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a reference to legislation to extend civil partnerships to different-sex couples and provide for the potential financial consequences, including in relation to pensions.

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2019: Pension benefits

  Date:

  24 June 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  A pension is a key part of the employee benefits offering. Here, we look at the types of schemes that employers offer, and the level of contribution they make to them.

• Wider NHS pension reform needed to remove overtime deterrent

  Date:

  6 June 2019

  Type:

  News

  Plans to offer NHS doctors more flexible pensions will need to be part of wider reforms if the government wants to stop clinicians feeling forced to reduce their hours to avoid tax difficulties, the British Medical Association has warned.

• Why auto-enrolment should always be on HR's to do list

  Date:

  10 April 2019

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  Pensions auto-enrolment might not be the most exciting HR topic but, as Angela Sharma explains, it should never be far from the top of any HR list of things to do.

• State pension

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to reflect the state pension entitlement in force from 9 April 2019.