Welsh church gives pre-2005 pension rights to civil partners

Employers are not currently required to give the same survivors' pensions to civil partners as they are to heterosexual spouses. Pension schemes may legally exclude surviving civil partners from benefits accrued before 2005, on the grounds that civil partnerships did not exist before then. Heterosexual surviving spouses have the right to all pension benefits, regardless of when they married. During a two-day meeting finishing yesterday, the Church in Wales passed a motion to allow a change in its legislation giving the civil partners of clerics the right to all pension benefits. ...