Sentence examples for closing schemes from inspiring English sources

With private sector final salary schemes across the country in deep deficit, employers are desperately looking for ways to reduce future pensions, or are closing schemes altogether.

A compliant finger closing scheme is devised by exploiting both the object shape uncertainty and tactile sensing at fingertips.

It squeezed the numbers of highly skilled migrants allowed entry and closed schemes allowing unskilled workers in from outside the EU.

This requirement has changed a number of times in recent years as the government has tried to get the right balance between protecting members' future pensions and not putting so heavy a funding obligation on employers as to encourage them to close schemes, according to workSMART, a website run by the TUC.

A charity says it could have to close schemes which support hundreds of children in Birmingham if it loses vital funding from the city council.

The Port Authority has been mired in scandal since at least 2013, when the Fort Lee lane-closing scheme exposed political machinations by appointees of New Jersey's then-governor, Chris Christie.

Employers have responded to falling stockmarkets and ballooning pension liabilities by closing these schemes to new members.

Until now most big employers closing their schemes to new recruits have kept them open for staff who had already joined.

That is likely to push more companies into steps to cut their DB obligations, if necessary by closing their schemes to existing members, as well as new ones.

Our four-year fight against corruption has already brought successful results in closing corrupt schemes in fraudulent value-added tax (VAT) refunds.

But he has found that large employees are now closing their schemes, and returns on individual ones, such as stakeholder pensions, have been "miserable in the last year or two".