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2025 Annual Memorial/Ecumenical Service.
FROM JANUARY 2015 to DECEMBER 2022
BASIC MONTHLY PAY REDUCED
OF THOSE ON PENSION
TOTAL TAKEN FROM PENSIONERS
c€48m
TAKEN FROM OUR ACTUAL MONTHLY PENSION OVER 8 YEARS
SINCE JAN 2015
THIS IS THE CUMULATIVE AMOUNT THAT OUR ACTUAL BASIC MONTHLY INCOME HAS BEEN COMPULSORILY REDUCED
DECISIONS TAKEN ABOUT US BY THOSE AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE
NO VOICE FOR PENSIONERS AT THE TABLE OR COMPENSATION!!
NO INCOME PROTECTION OR SECURITY IN RETIREMENT!
April 5 2022 RASA/Retired Workers Network for Briefing on the Industrial Relations Bill for TD/Senators
June 30 2021 -RASA outside DAIL during the debate on the second reading of the Industrial Relations Bill seeking a Voice at the Table where decisions currently are TAKEN ABOUT US WITHOUT US. Pensioners deliberately excluded from these decisions .
VOICE OF OLDER PEOPLE - NETWORK OF RETIRED WORKERS ORGANISATIONS REPRESENTING OVER 500,000 PENSIONERS
WORKING TOGETHER ON THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (PROVISIONS IN RESPECT OF PENSION ENTITLEMENTS OF RETIRED WORKERS) BILL 2021
July 2022 - Industrial Relations bill to allow retired workers access to Industrial Relations mechanisms will now be going for a post second stage scrutiny by the Joint Committee. They decide whether or not it goes to formal Committee Stage.
RASA's Submission to the Public Consultation to allow retired workers access to IR mechanisms in relation to occupational pension is now available on the Government website along with other submissions.
You can read these submissions on the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment's Government website as follows or go direct.
22 APRIL 2022 : RASA RESPONDS TO THE GOVERNMENT'S INVITATION FOR SUBMISSIONS
22 APRIL 2022 : RASA RESPONDS TO THE GOVERNMENT'S INVITATION FOR SUBMISSIONS
ON RETIRED WORKERS ACCESS TO INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS MECHANISMS FOR
ON RETIRED WORKERS ACCESS TO INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS MECHANISMS FOR
PENSION RELATED ISSUES
PENSION RELATED ISSUES
March 2022 - Public Consultation on retired workers’ access to industrial relations mechanisms for pension related issues opened by Minister English
Submissions are now invited during a six-week public consultation period from Friday, 11 March to Friday, 22 April 2022. A link to the public consultation can be found at
Consultation on retired workers access to industrial relations mechanisms for pension related issues.
29 November - December 3 2021 - RASA pensioners join online EU Retirement Week Events.
The keynote address was made by Irish MEP European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness.
We shared our lived experience of reductions in pension in payment and that we have no right for our voice to be heard at the table where negotiations are taking place that negatively affect our income in retirement. We were excluded from buy out transfers of benefit reduction by others.
We have no income security and protection in retirement.
RASA SEEKING PENSION LEVY RESTORATION
In January 2021 RASA wrote to Government seeking restoration of pension levy deductions from our pensions in payment in 2012 - still awaiting a response in December 2022 .
In August 2021 RASA wrote to Trustees of IASS regarding pension levy deductions.
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