Guernsey Press

Pensions ballot due next month

FINAL arrangements are still to be made by unions before they ballot States employees on the new pensions deal later next month.

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Martin MacIntyre, chairman of the Association of States Employees' Organisations, said States employees should be balloted on the latest offer mid to late September.

He said it was up to each union to make its own arrangements and decide how long they needed.

Unite the Union regional representative Bob Lanning said it was still to organise the exact arrangements for the balloting of its members, but they would ensure people had plenty of time to have their say.

'I imagine it might be 14 days,' he said.

Union members are being balloted on a move to a career average earnings scheme. Compared with the 2013 proposals, the cap at which taxpayers will have to contribute has risen, by 0.5% to 14.5% of pensionable pay, while the amount staff will contribute is less, 7% rather than the initial 7.5%.

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