SGEU has been working on behalf of members who worked part-time, casual or in temporary positions in government during the 1980s and 1990s and who were not given the opportunity to join the Public Employees Pension Plan.
In 1981, the government changed its pension legislation to enable part-time, temporary and casual workers to join the "new" pension plan. Unfortunately, many employees hired at that time and in subsequent years either were told they could not join the plan or were not informed that they were entitled to join the plan.
Losing years of pensionable service is a financial hardship for individuals and families, and many of those affected were women employed in lower-paid, part-time positions.
SGEU filed suit against the government in 1997 but was later forced out of the legal proceedings and the case went forward on an individual basis but with SGEU support in the background. Finally, in 2007, the government and SGEU reached an Agreement in Principle for the PS/GE Bargaining Unit to settle the law suit. The same agreement will likely be extended to the SGEU bargaining units in five other lawsuits. Please check out the documents relating to the history of the dispute and its settlement.
If you have any questions, please contact Nonperm pension
Forms: Revised Notice to Review form - August 2009
Forms: Public Service Commision link and forms
Lawyer O'Reilly letter July 2004
Justice Sought for Part-time, Casual and Temp Workers
