Great Britain: a trade union is challenging Lloyds Blank over the female pensions gap

British banking group Lloyds has to face a legal challenge at the employment tribunal over pensions that are said to discriminate against female staff in terms of the supplementary pension system called the guaranteed minimum pension (GMP). This landmark case could snowball into British companies having to pay millions to all adversely affected females.

Through . Published on 29 August 2016 Ă  16h17 - Update on 31 August 2016 Ă  14h52

For the Lloyds Trade Union (LTU), this case is a “£20 billion pensions discrimination time bomb”, which could end up sending shockwaves to other British businesses. Lloyds Bank is not the sole business to have opted for the GMP system, which was implemented in 1978 and operated until 1997.…

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