‘Claw-back’ of exit payments





In summary, this is a plan to require the repayment of any “exit payments” made when a public sector worker leaves and rejoins the public sector within 12 months, where their salary on leaving exceeded £80,000. Consultation on the draft regulations ended in January 2016 but they were very heavily criticised and it is possible that this highly political proposal may in the end, not be enacted. 


In the NHS, there are already provisions in place requiring the “claw-back” of exit payments to senior managements earning over £100,000 when they are re-employed by another NHS employer within 12 months.