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RPI v CPI appeal Feb 20th

6 February 2012

GMB SUPPORTED APPEAL ON CHANGE FROM RPI TO CPI WILL BE HELD IN COURT OF APPEAL ON FEBRUARY 20TH

GMB consider that the High Court was wrong in fact and in law regarding this change to long standing employment contracts which cuts pensions in payment by 15% and more

The GMB supported appeals against the government's indexation changes will take place on February 20th in the Court of Appeal.

There are two separate appeals against a High Court ruling last year backing the decision to use the Consumer Prices Index rather than the Retail Prices Index to uprate pension benefits. They will be heard together on 20 February in the Court of Appeal.

GMB with Prospect, the FDA, and National Union of Teachers, together with the Civil Service Pensioner's Alliance, and a group of six unions lodged the appeals last month.

Brian Strutton, GMB National Secretary for Public Services, said“GMB consider that the High Court was wrong in fact and in law regarding this change to long standing employment contracts which cuts pensions in payment by 15% and more. That is the reason GMB, with the other unions, is mounting this robust legal challenge to that decision”.



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