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With high employer costs and risks associated with participation in public sector defined benefit schemes, we are assisting many clients with changes to their DB pension arrangements. Where there is contractual right to the scheme, the main method used is to obtain employee/union consent to the change. Where consent is not provided, dismissal with notice and an offer of immediate re-engagement is often used as a method for implementing the pension change.
The Employment Rights Bill (as drafted) will severely limit the availability of dismissal and re-engagement. This will in-turn have implications for such pension change projects. The change is scheduled to come into force in October 2026.
In this webinar, employment lawyer and trade union lawyer specialist, Ross Hutchison, and pensions lawyer, Cat Ellis, discuss the implications of the Bill on the ability of employers to make changes to their pension arrangements.
This webinar will be relevant to employers that participate in public sector pension schemes such as higher education institutions, social housing organisations, independent schools and charities where the employer does not have a statutory obligation to provide the benefit to their employees.
Please do feel free to join us for a webinar on the key issues involved and the opportunity to ask questions on the Bill.
Date: Tuesday 23 September 2025
Time: 10am - 11am
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