The judge was quite specific in one of two areas yesterday.
Namely, the ten year transition period - why ten years, who determined it, was it arrived at to support industrial relations with (say) hospital porters and was, therefore, it rolled out across the public sector without further regard, and if so, was it done arbitrarily but fairly, or for the social good? I think the one thing that it is fair to say, we won't see transitional protection when/if AFPS15 becomes AFPS21, or will it become tapered (something which the MoD was allowed to say, with impunity, it could rely on when making people redundant)?
And if we say that transitional protection in 2015 was wrong for everyone, unless it could be argued otherwise, do you reverse it, how do you reverse it, or do you put everyone serving at the time in the position whereby they have retained previous benefits, albeit in some de-facto format? Or, do you do nothing. What is obvious, is that I'm sure other public sectors have potent legal resources with which to address this matter, via their representative bodies. The military has none.
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