Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has described the Government\u2019s response to a Labour Court ruling about pension entitlements for CE supervisors as contradictory. The Sinn F\u00e9in TD said the Government supposedly support the change, but they are failing to initiate this change and are in fact blocking it.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe public are rightly outraged at the unfair pension regime for certain women due to changes in eligibility criteria in 2012. This new regime is also impacting on other groups of workers facing into retirement. Community Employment Scheme Supervisors are one of these groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2008, a landmark Labour Court ruling found that a pension scheme should be introduced for CE supervisors and it should be funded by F\u00c1S, but subsequent Ministers, including the current Taoiseach, have ignored and failed to act on this important ruling.<\/p>\n
“The CE functions of F\u00c1S have transferred to the Department of Social Protection and the Ministers in that Department have also made no attempt to implement the courts findings.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means that there is huge uncertainty for CE supervisors and assistant supervisors as to where they officially stand, what pension entitlements they are entitled to, where they can access the pension from, and from whom. This anomaly is grossly unfair and needs to be addressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen questioned by Sinn F\u00e9in back in 2011, the then Social Protection Minister, Joan Burton, said a scheme to address this would cost around \u20ac33 million in retrospective pensions owed and an additional \u20ac3 million yearly. Since then neither Deputy Burton, nor her successor Leo Varadkar, former Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, and his successor Pascal Donoghue, have made any attempt to right this wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means that retired CE supervisors, like many other pensioners impacted by Joan Burton\u2019s new pension regime, have been left significantly out of pocket.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Government are ignoring their responsibilities to these CE Supervisors and other pensioners negatively impacted by Joan Burton\u2019s pension changes. Equally concerning is that they are also sending a worrying message to other employers that Labour Court rulings can be flagrantly ignored.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Government has now kicked to touch the pension issue to a \u2018forum\u2019 to \u2018scope\u2019 the issues facing the overall pension deficit and its fallout. Unfortunately they didn\u2019t need to adopt that approach in F\u00c1S when \u20ac48 million was spent on \u2018advertising\u2019 and when giving an outgoing Director General their \u20ac1.4 million package.<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly the Government needs to adhere to its own labour relation structures by implementing the Labour Court recommendation immediately and showing these retired pensioners the respect they deserve.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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