Issue - meetings

(Director of Education, Children’s Services and Libraries – Human Resources)

The Human Resources Manager (Education, Children’s Services and Libraries) presented the report updating the Sub-Committee on the arrangements for access to unreduced pension for teachers prior to the normal retirement date, as a result of the Age Discrimination Legislation introduced on 1 October 2006.

The Sub-Committee noted that the recommendations in the report fell in line with the Council’s Pensions and Severance Policy which was agreed at the Employment Committee on 4 October 2006.  The Human Resources Manager highlighted that the Early Retirement Policy allowing teachers to apply to be released under efficiency grounds from age 58 would cease to operate.  This change had been discussed through teacher associations where there had been no objections.

RESOLVED that, with immediate effect

(i)                  teachers who were made redundant and had unreduced access to their pension would have the redundancy calculated at the statutory (30 week maximum) redundancy calculator;

(ii)                teachers who were made redundant who did not have unreduced access to their pension would have the redundancy severance calculated at x2.5 statutory redundancy calculator up to a maximum of 104 weeks payment;

(iii)               actual weekly pay be used for all redundancy payments; and

(iv)              the Early Retirement Policy allowing teachers to apply to be released under efficiency grounds from age 58 ceased to operate.