Boots 取引，協定s 年金 blow to 15,000 staff

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 14:24 BST, 30 January 2010

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More than 15,000 労働者s at 同盟 Boots will lose generous 年金 条件s after the 私的な 公正，普通株主権 owners of the High Street 化学者／薬剤師 chain 発表するd the 終結 of the company's final salary 年金 計画／陰謀. < /p>

の近くにd: Boots joins a number of 会社／堅いs in shutting its final salary 計画／陰謀

The gold-plated 計画／陰謀 has a 黒字／過剰 of £188m and Boots said the move had not been 誘発するd by any 財政上の 騒動.

にもかかわらず the 強健な 財政上の health of the 退職 マリファナ, 存在するing members will be 転換d on to a defined-出資／貢献s 計画／陰謀 that puts いっそう少なく 財政上の 重荷（を負わせる） on the company and places the 危険s of market fluctuations with the 従業員.

Boots, which is 支援するd by US buyout 会社／堅い Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, is the 最新の in a string of FTSE 100 companies to take an axe to final-salary 計画／陰謀s over the past year. Others 含む Barclays, BP, Whitbread, DSG International, WM Morrison and Trinity Mirror.

Boots operates two final-salary 計画／陰謀s, one of which was the first to move into 社債s and 株 in 2000.

The 基金 outperformed many more 保守的な 計画／陰謀s.

(n)役員／(a)執行力のある chairman of Boots Stefano Pessina said 15,000 staff would be 協議するd on the 終結 of the 計画／陰謀.

He said: 'This will help 保護する the 商売／仕事 from the 影響 of 年金 基金ing volatility and 確実にする the long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 sustainability of the group's UK 退職 貯金 計画／陰謀s.'

As part of the 協議 Boots will tell staff that 90% of 年金 支出 is 分配するd to 20% of 従業員s.

The final-salary 年金 計画／陰謀 has long been a bone of 論争 since KKR acquired Boots for £11bn in a 高度に-てこ入れ／借入資本d 取引，協定 in 2007.

After a bitter 論争 with the 計画／陰謀's trustees, KKR was 軍隊d to 支払う／賃金 £420m in cash into the 計画／陰謀 over ten years and 供給する £600m in 保証（人）s to get the 引き継ぎ／買収 取引，協定 sewn up.

分かれて, Kraft's 管理／経営 will be hoping to 避ける a 類似して expensive 戦う／戦い when it 会合，会うs the trustees of Cadbury's 年金 計画／陰謀 next week.

Trustees will 捜し出す 保証／確信s that Kraft's £7bn 負債 重荷（を負わせる） to 財政／金融 the 引き継ぎ／買収 of the chocolate 製造者 will not 影響する／感情 the viability of the 計画／陰謀.

部隊 spokeswoman Pauline Doyle said the union 手配中の，お尋ね者 a 保証（人） that Kraft would not alter the 条件 of the 存在するing 年金 計画／陰謀 for at least five years.