Are you obliged by law to retire at 65 or can you still work if you wish to ?

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Are you obliged by law to retire at 65 or can you still work if you wish to ?

Thanks in advance for your reply
 
Re: Retirement age

There is no law to say that people can't work to whatever age they want. Some contracts of employment may have a non statutory clause specifying the retirement from that employment. However there is nothing stopping a person of any age (above the minimum working age obviously!) working for a living. However earnings beyond "normal" retirement age may affect eligibility for means tested welfare payments (e.g. state non-contributory pension etc.) and will be assessable for tax.
 
new civil servants have a MINIMUM retirement age of 65 and no max retirement age.
 
legend99 said:
new civil servants have a MINIMUM retirement age of 65 and no max retirement age.
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As a new public servant, my contract states 'you will cease to hold office on reaching the minimum retirement age for pension purposes'.
 
Medical Consultants also have to retire at 65 but a lot of them go on working as locum consultants in their old jobs for a few years afterwards - and there's no obligation on them end their private practices.
 
gearoidmm said:
Medical Consultants also have to retire at 65 but a lot of them go on working as locum consultants in their old jobs for a few years afterwards - and there's no obligation on them end their private practices.
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God love them, they have to get by on an average of €277'000 a year. See [broken link removed] for details. At least they don't have to do the public clinics themselves and can send their registrar instead… or actually do most of the operations themselves. But I digress.
 
Please digress in another thread and try to keep this one on topic. Thanks.
 
RainyDay said:
As a new public servant, my contract states 'you will cease to hold office on reaching the minimum retirement age for pension purposes'.
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Mine has no maximum age...I must look into it.
 
'you will cease to hold office on reaching the minimum retirement age for pension purposes'.
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Could this mean that you can continue working but that there will be no further contribution to your pension and that your pension will relate only to service up to age 65?

Marion
 
Marion said:
Could this mean that you can continue working but that there will be no further contribution to your pension and that your pension will relate only to service up to age 65?

Marion
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As a newbie to the public service, I'd be amazed if it meant anything other than you stop working at 65 - but I'm open to being educated on the implications of civil service-speak.
 
But presumably you can work elsewhere (e.g. private industry, self employed etc.) after 65 once you retire from the Civil/Public Service? Surely there is no law against that!?
 
ClubMan said:
But presumably you can work elsewhere (e.g. private industry, self employed etc.) after 65 once you retire from the Civil/Public Service? Surely there is no law against that!?
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That would be my understanding - yes.
 
Social welfare have a PRSI class for those over 65, so I suppose from that, then you could still work.
 
The rules have changed recently for new entrants so I'm not really sure of the details, but, thankfully, I won't have to work until age 65!

But, I know some principals who have retired (having reached retirement age) and who continue to work in the public sector - albeit in a substitute teaching capacity with no further pension rights.

I think judges are permitted to work until age 70?

Marion
 
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