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Maude 'fairly confident' as union starts court case
1st February 2011 at 10:07:03 by Civil Service World
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The union argues that the reforms breach the Human Rights Act, and has issued proceedings in the High Court.
Speaking to CSW, Maude said: “We’re fairly confident that our case is robust, that we’ve looked at all the implications, we’ve provided for them in the [Superannuation] Bill – now the Act – and we’re confident that it is a good piece of legislation in human rights terms.”
He added: “It cannot be right that a single trade union should have the ability to veto the reform of a compensation scheme which everyone – even the PCS – accepts needs reform.”
Writing in CSW, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka arguesthat the new scheme is unlawful because civil servants have accrued rights to redundancy payments which cannot be removed unless demonstrably in the public interest.