Published: 12 August 2011

Brendan Broderick: Why deadline for teacher retirement must be changed

A KEY aim of the Croke Park Agreement is to achieve significant savings to public sector pay costs over a four-year period.

Under the terms of the agreement, eligible public service workers who retire before the end of February 2012 will have their pensions calculated on their 2009 salary -- that is, the salary they had before the imposition in January 2010 of the public sector pay cut.

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