{"id":6798,"date":"2010-05-10T15:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T13:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=6798"},"modified":"2010-05-10T15:40:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T13:40:35","slug":"its-only-just-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/10\/its-only-just-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s only just begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/8672150.stm\">BBC News - Union wins civil service redundancy pay challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"first\">A union has won its High Court bid to halt government cost-cutting measures which threatened to reduce the level of redundancy pay for civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) argued changes made to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme without agreement were unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Justice Sales ruled the union's application for judicial review should succeed and the changes be quashed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good news for PCS members.<\/p>\n<p>Good news for all families who will be asked to bear the brunt of cuts whilst financial markets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/10\/money-1-people-0\/\" target=\"_blank\">capitalise state bail outs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the beginning of the battle to show that the last people to bear the burden of cuts are those least able to bear the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News &#8211; Union wins civil service redundancy pay challenge. A union has won its High Court bid to halt government cost-cutting measures which threatened<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/05\/10\/its-only-just-begun\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}