Tata sale at risk because company pension is a liability. Isn’t it time to nationalise such schemes?
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The fatcats bleed any profits into their own salaries and then, when the firm falls into financial difficulties, they see this large, untapped source of cash just sitting around untouched, and dig into it.
Or, when they try to sell the company, they find that nobody wants to touch it because the pension scheme is now a liability.
Either way, it is a noose around a firm’s corporate throat.
The only workable pension scheme This Writer has seen in the UK is that which is run by the UK government – and even then, only when the government isn’t being run by Conservatives.
Isn’t it time we all admitted it?
A sale of Tata’s loss-making steel operations could be derailed by a government split over how to deal with its giant £15bn pension scheme.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid is due to hold talks with Tata’s board this week to discuss bids received for the business by today’s deadline.
It is understood that Mr Javid, having said that the Government is willing to take an equity stake of up to 25pc alongside a new owner and offer “hundreds of millions” in financial support, is desperate to see a deal secured but potential buyers are refusing to take on Tata’s massive UK pension scheme.
To get over the hurdle, sources close to the sale say the Department for Business (BIS) is supporting a radical proposal backed by the fund’s trustees which would see the fund “spun off” as a separate entity and effectively become a new scheme.
Under this plan, members would be given a choice of entering the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) or joining the new, spun off scheme, with less generous benefits. In a bid to get this idea of the ground, Tata could contribute a lump sum and the Government would help to underwrite it for several years.
However, it is understood that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is resisting the idea amid serious questions about the plausibility of a move seen as high risk and flouting the current pensions framework.
Source: Tata sale at risk as government row over pension deal threatens process
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shouldnt whot tata took out be paid back by them but has above it makes me laugh all these pension scheme when they had a surpluss who dipped into them leaving the poor worker poorer
There is a long history of CEO’s dipping into British pension pots. Typically large ones that affect hundreds of workers. It seems indicative of the contempt with which British workers are treated. While some parts are protected, many still lose out. Is it any wonder the Tory government uses similar practices to deprive people of their rightful contributions across the board when such practices are seemingly accepted as par for the course. While these fat cats line their pockets, the British worker struggles. Were it vis a vis, you would be prosecuted.
Tories hate the word nationalise just as much as they hate human and workers rights, liberty, freedom, equal pay, fairness, justice, the truth, etc!
Spot on mrmarcpc. Absolutely spot on. Basically they are just full of hatred for everything and everybody – even each other.