NO PENSION RIGHTS

Part-time fee-paid tribunal chairmen are not workers and are not entitled to a pension, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held. The EAT ruled in Christie v Department for Constitutional Affairs and another that Ronald Christie was excluded from pension rights by the Part Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations (SI 2000/1551). Regulation 12 made those regulations applicable to workers in Crown employment. However, reg 17 excluded any individual in his capacity as the holder of a judicial office if he was remunerated on a daily fee-paid basis.