2006-11-23 06:33:21 · 17 answers · asked by jonahdad2006 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
There are a lot of female staff in the public sector. Not only can they retire at sixty, they get their pensions at sixty, and obviously don't have to pay contributions until they are sixty five like the men. That applies both to the employers pension and the state pension. They then have the audacity to live about seven years longer than men. Many men and women have been allowed to retire before sixty (particularly in education) and collect their employers pension. They would then collect their state pension as set out above.
I have described above the additional benefits, particularly for women, but the reason they will not have to retire at sixty eight is because the government caved in to the public sector unions. Too many votes at stake.
2006-11-27 05:08:40 · answer #1 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YEARS passed. The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by. A time came when there was no one who remembered the old days before the Rebellion, except Clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven, and a number of the pigs.
Muriel was dead; Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher were dead. Jones too was dead-he had died in an inebriates' home in another part of the country. Snowball was forgotten. Boxer was forgotten, except by the few who had known him. Clover was an old stout mare now, stiff in the joints and with a tendency to rheumy eyes. She was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal had ever actually retired. The talk of setting aside a corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had long since been dropped.
2006-11-23 08:32:36 · answer #2 · answered by andylefty 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because their Union threatened to call government employees out on strike if they forced them to wait until 68 for their pensions.
Unlike Maggie Thatcher who wasn't afraid to take on the unions, Tony Blair and his Scottish cronies are too lily-livered to do the right thing. Meanwhile, we - the people who pay the civil sservants their inflation proof pensions- can do nothing until the next General Election.
2006-11-23 06:51:03 · answer #3 · answered by Peter Bro 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think by government workers you mean civil servants and they have the right of retirement at 60 protected as part of their contracts I believe. Local government workers retire at 65..but that has now changed with age descrimination.
2006-11-23 06:37:02 · answer #4 · answered by Graham C 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because by the time they are 60 they have earned enough to keep them in a good standard of living. Plus they make the rules to suit them selves. So why work.
Sheila.
2006-11-23 20:22:21 · answer #5 · answered by she shaw sea shore 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Funny how things change. Civil Servants used to be regarded as being forced to retire at 60.
2006-11-23 06:42:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a perk for working in the civil service for generally less money than you'd get doing a similar job in the private sector.
2006-11-24 08:40:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
So that they can get as early and quickly as possible on to the inflation-proofed pensions and golden handshakes we taxpayers so willingly and uncomplainingly provide for them. Why waste the best 8 years of your life still 9to5ing!
2006-11-23 06:41:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
because as in so many other instances we as a people have sat on our arses and let the gov, do what they wanted to do and you can bet all gov employees voted for whoever introduced that law. it is like most every thing else in the good old U,S, greed ,money,power, where in gods name did our statesmen go???
2006-11-23 07:03:16 · answer #9 · answered by jim ex marine offi, 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A case of them having a lovely fat pension.
2006-11-26 00:30:28 · answer #10 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋