It issued a formal letter before claim last week for judicial review proceedings. The government has until 19 November to respond.
The Court of Appeal cases, Ministry of Justice v McCloud and Home Secretary v Sargeant [2018] EWCA Civ 2844 found the government’s public sector pension reforms discriminated against judges and firefighters based on their ages.
Younger firefighters were required to leave the scheme and join a new 2015 scheme. FBU national officer Mark Rowe said the government was ‘trying to make firefighters pay for their own discrimination… via a scheme in their pensions called “cost control”’.