Great Britain: My Civil Service Pension, first experiment for the “Big Society” concept by Prime Minister James Cameron

Around 450 staff in the Department will cease to be public sector employees in March 2012 and become stakeholders in MyCSP (My Civil Service Pension), a privately-owned mutual that will handle the retirement funds of 1.5m civil servants, disbursing £4bn in pension payments each year.
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tempt to opertionalise David Cameron’s idea of the ‘big society.’ By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire. (Ref. 120082)

Around 450 staff in the Department will cease to be public sector employees in March 2012 and become stakeholders in MyCSP (My Civil Service Pension), a privately-owned mutual that will handle the retirement funds of 1.5m civil servants, disbursing £4bn in pension payme

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