Re: Union Scaremongering
Originally Posted by
Antibrown
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Arerolor, by law everyone is allowed to transfer their pension to another one so when they are forced to retire at 55(although that is being removed) they will be offered a 'suspended pension' but they have the choice to transfer it to another one if they so wish.
If they do not have one then they can take a pension out and then transfer their old company pension into it.
I know that pensions can be transferred or suspended AB. NHS employees were not
"forced" to retire at 55 (it was an option if they wanted to and they could start to draw their NHS pension at 55 if they wanted to). None of this alters the fact that NHS staff in the NHS pension scheme will not be allowed to take their NHS pension before 65 - which is quite a dramatic change.
I think we are going round the houses a bit here AB and getting nowhere fast.
A slightly different thought, but one thing I would say when you talk about lazy employees, fair play, the right to strike, getting out of holes, etc. etc. is that nurses and other health professionals WILL NOT GO ON STRIKE. (Heaven forbid that they ever did - it is against their professional ethics and core principles). What you also may not realise is that a lot of effort and time is given by staff which goes unpaid.
When you talk wholesale about lazy employees AB it really does make me cross - we have obviously lived in different working worlds. Many people would not last five minutes in the environment that many NHS staff work in, so please stop referring sweepingly to lazy employees.