And it said it has started a consultation with staff to replace the current defined benefit pension scheme with a cheaper contribution-based pension scheme.
Additionally, employers have switched from final salary schemes, which commonly guaranteed an income worth two-thirds of a worker's last pay cheque, to cheaper defined contribution (DC) schemes.
The data, which relates to spring of 2012, shows that disappearing final salary schemes are not all being replaced with cheaper defined contribution schemes, or stakeholder pensions, where pay outs are based on stock market performance.
Pension provision through these defined-benefit (DB) schemes has been replaced by cheaper defined-contribution (DC) plans, in which workers build up their own retirement savings and bear the risk of disappointing investment returns, as well as the cost of living longer when they turn their pension pots into retirement income.
Rural health care is rudimentary, but a scheme introduced in recent years provides subsidised treatment for rural hukou-holders who make a small annual contribution (cheaper than urban insurance).
The threshold, announced on Tuesday by the London mayor in a new housing strategy, is intended to increase housebuilders' contribution to cheaper housing, but the Conservative opposition accused Khan on Monday night of "ratting on what he said during the election", something strongly denied by City Hall.
Corporations across the country have been trying to switch their employees from traditional defined benefit pension plans to cheaper, less reliable defined contribution plans.
Some waiters complain that their tips have become smaller, and a priest near Naples made headlines by complaining that the euro had made parisioners "cheap" in their contributions.
To take a small and silly example, my wife has sworn off cheap air travel as her contribution to saving the earth.
It should now be easier and cheaper than ever to bring contributions from different cultures together — to shift the boundaries of what defines markets and appeals to poetry lovers around the world, or fans of biographies or business books.
Online fund-raising also makes it easier and cheaper for Democrats to harvest contributions from individuals, a boon for a party that lags in raising money from traditional sources.
