Royal Mail has started a formal consultation process on closing its "unaffordable" defined benefit (DB) scheme to future accrual from April 2018.
The plan, which was first announced in August last year, could affect around 90,000 employees. The scheme reported a surplus of £1.77bn on an IAS 19 accounting basis as of 31 March 2016, with as...
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