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Public Servant retiring/rehiring at 65

  • 18-02-2018 8:49pm
    #1
    stoves1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭


    a friend of mine ie a clerical officer in HSE has reached retirement age 65 next month (mar 2018), has 19yrs service, has asked to be kept on under new government guidelines, what she has been told is she has to retire in march 2018, (recieve her small pension and gratuity) and they will rehire her on a one year contract and she will have to go back to first point of clerical officers pay, this seems pretty mean, would like to hear peoples thoughts.


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  • #2
    Dev84
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 739 ✭✭✭Dev84


    stoves1 wrote: »
    a friend of mine ie a clerical officer in HSE has reached retirement age 65 next month (mar 2018), has 19yrs service, has asked to be kept on under new government guidelines, what she has been told is she has to retire in march 2018, (recieve her small pension and gratuity) and they will rehire her on a one year contract and she will have to go back to first point of clerical officers pay, this seems pretty mean, would like to hear peoples thoughts.

    Rehiring a co? Never heard of it at that low a level tbh.


  • #3
    boege
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭boege


    Its a temporary measure pending legislation passing in the dail. The legislation is expected to be far broader.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2017/1206/925312-retirement-public-service/


  • #4
    Squatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭Squatter


    stoves1 wrote: »
    a friend of mine ie a clerical officer in HSE has reached retirement age 65 next month (mar 2018), has 19yrs service, has asked to be kept on under new government guidelines, what she has been told is she has to retire in march 2018, (recieve her small pension and gratuity) and they will rehire her on a one year contract and she will have to go back to first point of clerical officers pay, this seems pretty mean, would like to hear peoples thoughts.

    By definition a government guideline is exactly that, it has no legal standing. Hence, the HSE can choose to observe it or not as they wish.

    I suspect that the terms of both her employment contract and the HSE's pension scheme may oblige her to retire at 65.

    The HSE are doing her a favour by allowing her to stay on for an extra year and are probably offering her the wage that they would pay her replacement if she had opted to retire at 65.

    Presumably she has been paying Class A PRSI, in which case she has the option of retiring and claiming Jobseekers Benefit until she's eligible for the State Contrib Pension at 66.


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    Fred Swanson
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  • #6
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,809 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    When did CS start paying class A PRSI?

    Many years ago, 1995 I believe


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    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #8
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Squatter wrote: »
    Presumably she has been paying Class A PRSI, in which case she has the option of retiring and claiming Jobseekers Benefit until she's eligible for the State Contrib Pension at 66.
    While they pay Class A PRSI, there are different schemes in place for civil servants compared to other workers, e.g. sick pay and pensions are radically different.


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    testicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭testicles


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  • #10
    Squatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,841 ✭✭✭Squatter


    testicles wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Rubbish!


    Statutory retirement age

    There is a statutory, (that is, set out in legislation), retirement age for some public servants. For people who joined the public service before 1 April 2004 this is generally 65.


    Equality legislation: Discrimination on the grounds of age for everyone aged over 16 is prohibited under employment equality legislation. However, employers are still allowed to set retirement ages in employment contracts.

    (both from Citizens Information Website)


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