Pensions and Retirement in UK Law
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“Thatcher’s children”, pensions and retirement ‐ Some survey evidence
Despite major changes in the UK pensions scene, including policy initiatives by successive governments, very little is known about people’s attitudes towards many pensions related issues. Reports t...
- SEX DISCRIMINATION: RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS
- The High Cost of Judges: Reconsidering Judicial Pensions and Retirement in an Ageing Population
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Accounting for pensions: a revolution in how post-retirement benefits are reported is coming, but there's time for CIMA members to help shape it.
...A radical overhaul of the way we account for pensions seems to be on the way. But it's not just around the corner--in fact, a number of us will be more concerned with collecting our pensions than accounting for them by the time the fundamental change......
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Black-hole sums: the pensions industry is in dire straits and the cost of providing employees with a decent retirement income is spiralling. Cathy Hayward considers the alternatives available to finance directors faced with fund deficits and a stock market showing few signs of revival.
...More than 80 per cent of us spend our working lives fantasising about early retirement, according to a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. The idea of a permanent holiday sipping G&Ts in sunnier climes might help us to get......
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Sustainable pensions, democratic governance, and EU law
The quality of democracy in our economy depends on the governance of capital, but Europeans are still deprived of real voice over their retirement money: the single biggest source of capital in the...... ... The quality of democracy in our economy depends on the governance of capital, but Europeans are still deprived of real voice over their retirement money: the single biggest source of capital in the 21st century. This paper outlines three major problems facing EU pensions: precarious retirement, ... ...
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Who would delay retirement? Typologies of older workers
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature linked to older workers' work orientations and the use of typologies to identify groups of older workers according to their w...... ... – The approach taken entails reviewing books and academicjournals from the area of human resource management, retirement, diversity and pensions. The paperfocuses on the industrial sociology literature as the grounding for the construction of older workertypologies.Findings – The review of ... ...
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Towards a European Pension Policy? The Possible Impact of the European Commission's Green Paper ‘Towards Adequate, Sustainable and Safe European Pension Systems’ on National Pension Strategies
The Green Paper provoked angry headlines after fixing 70 as the compulsory retirement age and reducing pension income. This article outlines some ideas and findings for developing pension issues at...... ... retirement ... capital-funded pensions. Discussions at EU levels should to consider unemployment, ... ...
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Something for nothing?. Employees’ views of occupational pension schemes
Against a background of partial, and often contradictory, information, this article explores the attitudes of over 1,000 employees in one firm in the financial services sector towards various issue...... ... White and Colin DuncanThe University of Edinburgh, UKKeywords Pensions, Employees, Recruitment, Retention, Motivation, Financial servicesAbstract ... the financial services sector towardsvarious issues related to retirement and pensions. The respondents regarded the existence ofoccupational ... ...
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Recent cases and the future of Directive 79/7 on equal treatment for men and women in social security: How to realise its full potential
Directive 79/7 on equal treatment for men and women in statutory social security has proven to be more relevant than ever, forty years after its adoption. Two new landmark judgments were handed dow...... ... ( Villar L ´aiz ) concerned the calculation of the retirement" pensions of part- time workers and the ruling marks an important\xC2" ... ...
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