If you get sacked, what happens to your pension ?

Post by **Thorby Bislam** » 20 Jul 2009, 18:32

Those three postmen who were sacked for not wearing bike helmets, will they lose their pensions ?
If I, or any other postman should fall foul of the H & S rules, would we lose our pensions ?

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 20 Jul 2009, 18:34

Under normal circumstances you keep whatever you've paid in but the RM portion is lost.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 20 Jul 2009, 18:34

Thorby Bislam wrote:Those three postmen who were sacked for not wearing bike helmets, will they lose their pensions ?
If I, or any other postman should fall foul of the H & S rules, would we lose our pensions ?

As far as I can remember its is a possibility but not a given. However, IIRC they do get back what they paid in if they are kicked out of the pension scheme.

norbert · Post by **norbert** » 20 Jul 2009, 18:48

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
Thorby Bislam wrote:Those three postmen who were sacked for not wearing bike helmets, will they lose their pensions ?
If I, or any other postman should fall foul of the H & S rules, would we lose our pensions ?
As far as I can remember its is a possibility but not a given. However, IIRC they do get back what they paid in if they are kicked out of the pension scheme.

better to resign sometimes

- the Social would treat it as a good reason to " leave a job " & keep your pension , anybody with any people skills would say put your notice in ( Managers are given that option

) but it's RM

- problem is that constructive dismissal in a ET is harder to prove

pinstripe · Post by **pinstripe** » 20 Jul 2009, 20:48

disgruntledpostie1 wrote:Under normal circumstances you keep whatever you've paid in but the RM portion is lost.

Does the RM portion go towards the office DOM's bonus or direct to :cfo ?

axeman · Post by **axeman** » 20 Jul 2009, 21:52

Can't see it being lawful for royal fail to remove any pension that has been already paid in and would guess it's frozen without anymore benifits added until whom ever is retirement age then its paid out

norbert · Post by **norbert** » 20 Jul 2009, 22:17

axeman wrote:Can't see it being lawful for royal fail to remove any pension that has been already paid in and would guess it's frozen without anymore benifits added until whom ever is retirement age then its paid out

I've seen somebody win a tribunal and RM had to put all that pension money back , I've seen someone frog - marched off by the IB with six weeks to go , he'd secreted parcels etc in the false ceiling of the gents , they never prosecuted but he lost the RM part of the pension , this is when RM were " relatively " benign though .

However elsewhere prior to privatization , they threw someone to the wolves to protect their sorry arses and sacked him , he took them to a tribunal and won & was reinstated . However they put him back as a new starter pension wise which seemed to be vindictive

. They had to get the equivalent of area branch secretary or even regional to take this chilling and inhuman manager on , he did eventually back down after a hell of row and this union guy was a local legend ; he was actually a council leader , the jumped up idiots he dealt with for the union were nothing in comparison .

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