Public Sector Exit Payments Regulations 2020
[ch 9: page 119]On 4 November 2020, the Public Sector Exit Payments Regulations 2020 became law. These regulations impose an absolute cap of £95,000 on all public sector exit payments, including pension elements, not just redundancy payments. They were consulted over in 2019, but the concerns of workers and their unions were ignored, and the proposals were enacted unchanged, just as the UK was facing a second wave of Coronavirus, with all public services stretched to deal with it.
Public service union UNISON has described the regulations as an unneeded and unwelcome distraction for employers and a personal catastrophe for long-serving members about to be made redundant. The British Medical Association is mounting a judicial review challenging the regulations.