REFORMS TO PUBLIC SECTOR EXIT PAYMENTS: REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS

The trade union for local authority chief executives and senior managers

REFORMS TO PUBLIC SECTOR EXIT PAYMENTS: REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS

The government has reaffirmed its intention to reduce public sector redundancy payments (as a way of tightening still further its previously announced decisions to cap public sector exit payments, and to require the repayment of some or all of their exit payments by those who rejoin the public sector within a year). [private]For a summary of the government’s intentions click here; for the Treasury document, go to https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/555304/reforms_to_public_sector_exit_payments_consultation_response.pdf; and for ALACE’s response (April 2016) to the government’s earlier consultation (February 2016) click here.[/private]