Thousands will suffer in retirement due to government’s public sector exit-payment cap

A government cap on public sector exit payments due to take effect next month will blight the retirement of long-serving council staff and needs to be urgently reformed, says UNISON today (Thursday).
Ministers claimed the legislation, limiting payments to £95,000, was designed to reduce the level of council payouts to senior managers. But instead thousands of​ staff with decades of service could be caught up in problems caused by