Jersey seeks to get rid of ‘holy grail’ final salary pension
Saturday 23rd October 2010, 2:29PM BST.
JERSEY ministers’ plans to close the island’s public sector final salary pension scheme should be applauded, according to the president of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce.
Julian Winser (pictured) responded yesterday after a series of cuts to public spending and increased taxes were unveiled in Jersey’s Budget.
The controversial Goods and Services Tax will be increased from 3 to 5%, should the Jersey States agree when it debates the Budget in December.
Alcohol duty will increase by 6.7%, tax on tobacco will see a jump of 11.1% and duty on fuel will go up by 2p a litre.
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Who gives this gentleman the authority to speak on matters involving public sector pensions and why is the Guernsey Press giving him a voice
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Because the Press hates the States and will happily give coverage to anyone who wants to have a go at them, however ill-founded their moan is.
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It is plainly the ‘politics of envy’.
How else is the public sector going to attract the level of expertise to fulfil the top roles without them giving them the same package as the low paid public servants?
Because the private sector, and in Guernsey’s case, the finance industry, pays its managers a good whack, it would have no hope if not matching them.
It distorts the whole scene. The reality is that calls for cutting pension provision for the majority; those who are relatively low paid public servants, who dedicate their employment for the betterment of Guernsey as a whole, in comparison to their private sector peers who may be suffering at the hands of exploitative employers, are simply desiring break up of public provision in order to a share of that market and make it a free-for-all private sector bonanza?
Why not look at what happens when that has been forced on the public in other countries.
If you want competition, start by putting a cap on the high pay of private sector big cheeses. Then maybe we will see a difference. Or is that too obvious?
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Maybe the Press does hate ‘The States’ and there is a lot of waste and wrong decisions brought about by incompetence, vanity, narrow mindedness and a lack of accountability but, items like this only serve to rile the average worker on an average salary and pension
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Arnald
You mean like the Communists?
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No, not like the communists, like a progressive social democracy.
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Arnald
Sounds too much like Cuba or North Korea to me. I don’t think that’s a club I would wish to join.
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Yes. And I am under your bed.
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Arnald
You’ve lost me already. Quite scary really.
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It’s a scarier thing that I lost you!
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Haha well done Arnald…. Not Gullible maybe, but Not Intelligient either!
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