Richard Tice of Reform has mandated that anyone who starts employment at any Reform-controlled council going forward will not be allowed to join the Local Government Pension Scheme.
It’s hard to retrospectively remove the entitlement from those who already work at councils and hence are members – so instead he’s going to punish them with lower pay rises than everyone else.
These pensions are certainly more generous than the standard private sector pension, but, in a different world, I’d imagine that anyone claiming to be a friend of the average worker in a situation where many people entering retirement don’t have an adequate income for a decent quality of life would be more inclined to try and improve the lot of the folk with worse pensions rather than force the few people who do still have reasonable schemes down to the lowest common denominator.
Never one to not bring a culture war to anything going, he is apparently also worried that councils are investing in “woke” pension funds.