Will 69 year old builders labourers be able to carry bricks?
Oireachtas pensions should not be payable until the date of eligibility for the OAP. Anyone claiming it before that date should have a pro-rata reduction.
What about judges?
+1Oireachtas pensions should not be payable until the date of eligibility for the OAP. Anyone claiming it before that date should have a pro-rata reduction.
I am normally quite critical of over-generous pension provision, particularly when it is not appreciated by the recipients what a good deal they are actually getting but I don't have a problem with judges' pensions. Yes, they are given very good pension with very short service but this is probably one of the factors that induce them to take up the positions in the first place. Many are coming from very high-earning private practice and may be taking very substantial income reductions; factoring in the very generous pension provision may be what sways their decision (effectively they may be receiving notional compensation of 2x or 3x their annual salary - but this may still be below their old incomes). You also need to bear in mind that they are not permitted to return to legal practice once they have made the jump to being a judge so changing their terms would be particularly unfair as they are perhaps the only people unable to revert to the profession they originally trained for and where they could have continued making substantial incomes. On the whole, we have an excellent judiciary and I would hate to see the profession becoming less attractive to the best legal minds.What about judges? They often have years of service given to them for their pension calculation.
Betsy Og,
Where I work we accommodate people close to retirement age so that they can work shorter and more flexible hours. That might mean every morning or 3 mornings a week or 10-20 hours a week whenever it suits them (by agreement with the people they work with). Why would any organisation want to lose that level of experience and “tribal knowledge”?
ok, It's just the talk of having 25 years left to get to work that way at 75.
I thought you were younger than that though.
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