A work colleague's friend works in the Government Pensions office, Summerfield in Sligo.
He was offered a 3 year carreer break with 12k per year. He is heading to Australia to chill for 3 years.
I heard about this being offered by the banks - this is the first I have heard about it from a government posting.
Anyone got more information on scheme's like this?
(Wish I chose the PS now!)
Well John ODonaghue got 126k for 2 years travelling....
It is Civil Service wide. You get 33% of your current salary up to a max of 12k a year. A good few people in my dept are taking up the offer. I suppose it is a better way of reducing the wages bill instead of making people redundant and having to fork out redundancy payments and then social welfare payments on top of any medical card, rent relief benefits etc that an unemployed person may be entitled to.Originally Posted by Wakeupcall
The only drawback of the scheme is that after the 3 years the CS has up to a year to find you a position back in a government dept so potentially you could be a year without any money (you wouldnt be entitled to any dole payments etc as you still have a job)
Utterly immoral, surplus workers should simply be made redundant.
Fine. Costs way more though, which kinda defeats the original point of the exercise.
"Elite - a small superior group; esp one that has a power out of proportion to its size." (Oxford English Dictionary)
The majority cannot therefore be the elite.
Its a clear indication of the value the government puts on their work.
If it makes economic sense to pay them NOT to work - then god only knows what they doing all day when they do work
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