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'Hanging in the balance of the decision is whether the committee or the government has the authority to devise the plan to insure security and long term solvency.'
Fredericton (8 Sept. 2010) - The pension committee of the Pension Plan for Certain Bargaining Employees (CBE) in New Brunswick is going to court in a legal battle for control over the long-term future of pensions affecting some 10,000 public employees across the province.
Members of two major unions are affected – the New Brunswick Union of Public and Private Employees (NBUPPE/NUPGE) and the New Brunswick Nurses Union (NBNU).
"Members of the Para Medical and SHCP bargaining components along with the New Brunswick Nurses Union ... will learn the status of the ownership of their pension plan in the next number of weeks," NBUPPE says in an advisory posted on its website.
"On September 7th and 8th, the CBE Pension Committee (of which NBUPPE has two of the five union seats (NBNU has the other three) will seek determination from the Court of Queen’s Bench on the question of whether it has authority to design the benefits for plan members and set employer-employee contribution rates," the union adds.
"Hanging in the balance of the decision is whether the committee or the government has the authority to devise the plan to insure security and long term solvency for the plan."
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