No change is being proposed for staff in section A of the final salary scheme who joined before 1 December 1971.
With the final salary scheme, the pension you get is simply a fraction of the pay you were getting when you retired.
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In BA's case its big final salary scheme will stay open to its 34, 000 contributing members, for which they are probably very grateful.
"We are keeping a final salary scheme while some other companies have abandoned theirs, " chief financial officer Keith Williams said in the latest British Airways News.
"I am therefore delighted that we have been able to find a solution that retains the final salary scheme for those who wish to remain within it, " he added.
The government wants most public sector workers to work for longer, pay more into their pensions and accept a pension based on a "career average" salary, rather than the final salary scheme.
This annual revaluation means that someone whose salary rises substantially above inflation over time, typically through promotion, will not see the full benefit reflected in their pensions as would have been the case in a final salary scheme.
If you are paying into a final salary pension scheme, the amount of money you receive when you retire will depend on your final salary and how long you have worked for the firm.
In 2003, to cut costs, the firm closed its final salary pension scheme to new employees.
Amicus is launching a recruitment campaign at T-Mobile, urging workers to defend the final salary pension scheme.
Workers are angry over plans to close the final salary pension scheme to new recruits and reduce levels of pay.
Andrew Mackintosh, from UK Coal, said its "very generous" final salary pension scheme was a concern as it looked to reorganise its business.
Those who stay with one employer for a long time would still be better off in a traditional final-salary scheme.
Defined contribution schemes, where the employee builds up a pension pot via investments, are the typical replacement for a company's final-salary scheme.
Where they are members of a final-salary scheme they typically pay in 5.1% of their salaries, but in a defined contribution scheme contribute just 2.7%.
Areas under dispute have included pay and pensions, with the CWU saying a pay rise came with unacceptable strings attached, and the Royal Mail wanting to scrap its final salary pension scheme and raise the retirement age.
No more cushy final salary pensions scheme.
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Every extra year of life adds between 3-4% to the cost of funding a final-salary pension scheme.
Only 9% of staff in the private sector are now contributing to an employer's final-salary pension scheme.
Asda, the UK's second-biggest supermarket chain, is closing its final-salary pension scheme.
He said the company had already removed the final salary section of the pension scheme and was now trying to "bind up what's on the table with a whole load of strings".
Employee membership of any company pension scheme - final-salary, defined contribution or stakeholder, public and private sector - dropped to 48% last year.
However, 3, 200 scheme members were left to enjoy final salary benefits without having to make contributions.
Final salary schemes have traditionally been seen as the best type of company pension scheme so far as the employees are concerned.
The new scheme will be a career average one, rather than the final-salary versions that operate at present.
According to the Pensions Corporation, another consultancy, a 35-year-old who funds a DC scheme at such a level will retire on just 8% of his final salary if interest rates are low.
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