Thanks to Dave Eastham for this

Directorate of Pathology Oncology & Palliative Care
David Houliston CSci FIBMS
Governance Manager
Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch NHS Foundation Trust
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Eastham
Sent: 17 June 2009 12:03
To: Houliston, David
Subject: Pensions and the CBI

Hi David,

An interesting and revealing snippet from the CBI. and another from the
Employment agencies on pensions

Dave

Level pensions playing field needed to aid public sector reform
CBI - 16/06/2009
The CBI has warned that the rules governing the pensions of government
workers need to be changed if more businesses are to bid for public
service contracts.
Under current rules, businesses to which employees transfer are required

to take on pension liability, which can cost up to 50% of the salary.
The CBI recommends a change which would allow transferred employees to
remain members of the government pension scheme, with the new employer
paying into that scheme at the same (much lower) level that a public
sector provider would.
John Cridland, CBI Deputy Director-General, said: "Private bidders
recognise the importance of pensions, but they cannot expose themselves
to the ballooning costs of these public sector schemes, especially when
so many businesses have had to cut their own final salary schemes."

REC warns Government to think long and hard on new pensions for temps
REC - 11/06/2009
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation has expressed "serious
reservations" regarding proposals under the Pensions Act 2008 to include

agency workers in employer pension schemes.
Anne Fairweather, the REC's Head of Public Policy, said: "The Government

must recognise that many workers on short term assignments will want to
opt out of the pensions scheme for very good reasons. The legislation
risks placing a serious administrative burden on recruitment companies
who in many cases will have to refund the worker the contributions they
have made so far. Government must recognise that the administration to
do this is likely to be more than the value of the contributions
themselves".