£1,725 PENSION MAN TO GET A LUMP SUM
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APENSION of £1,725 a year granted
to a former British Transport Commission employee is not enough, the Queen's Bench Divisional Court decided last week. They upheld a Ministry of Labour tribunal's finding that Mr. T. H. Stacey, chief manager of th.: removals and travel department of Pickfords before nationalization, should be paid a substantial" lump sum besides getting half his salary as pension.
The B.T.C. had asked for an order quashing the tribunal's finding, but their appeal was dismissed with costs.
Lord Parker, the Lord Chief Justice. pointed out that under the 1947 Transport Act employees had to be accorded pension rights not less advantageous than they would have received with their previous employers. It was Pickfords' practice to treat their senior officers with generosity, and Mr. Stacey would have qualified for special consideration.
One of his predecessors had received a lump sum of £1,000, and another had been given a trip round the world. It was therefore impossible to say that there was no evidence on which the tribunal could have reached their decision.