UK. Public sector to launch ‘mass legal battle’ over pension reforms
Mass legal claims on behalf of teachers and doctors alleging that changes to their pensions in 2015 were discriminatory are being launched against the government.
After successfully winning a similar pension case on behalf of judges, the London law firm Leigh Day is preparing employment tribunal cases for public sector workers.
The British Medical Association is also coordinating action with doctors over pension reforms that they claim could inflict huge financial losses on individuals by the time they retire.
The latest wave of legal action follows the supreme court’s refusal earlier this summer to hear an appeal by the government against a landmark ruling that found alterations to the terms of judges’ and firefighters’ pensions were discriminatory.
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