Press release
PENSION PLAN FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND PUBLIC AGENCIES

PENSION PLAN FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND PUBLIC AGENCIES

 REDEMPTION OF SERVICE FOR SHORT PERIODS – END OF TRANSITIONAL MEASURES

With the agreement reached between the union and employers, implemented with Bill 163, An Act respecting the implementation of the recommendations of the pension committee of certain public sector pension plans and amending various legislative provisions, workers and workers with a cyclical job, with layoff periods, will no longer be able to buy back service for short periods.

For example, a person who would like to buy the Christmas holidays or spring break, will no longer be able to do so, from the date when Bill 163 will be sanctioned, that is, at the end of February or at the beginning of March. However, no member of the QFL will be penalized since the annualization of the salary, which allows employees to not be disadvantaged and to compensate for cyclical layoff periods, will be maintained.

It is therefore still possible for workers who wish to take advantage of it, to buy back periods of cyclical layoff with ‘’Retraite Québec’’, but they must do so quickly, before Bill 163 is sanctioned.

The redemptions of these short periods were authorized because of the sentence of René Beaupré, arbitrator, in Mrs. Carignan’s file, a worker in the education sector. She had been denied her request for redemption for short periods of layoff by the Commission administrative des régimes de retraite et d’assurances (CARRA) and had brought her case to arbitration and she won. The dispute arose from the fact that there was no definition of absence or leave without pay in the law, to which the agreement between the union and the employers  remedied by providing for a provision to that effect in the law (Loi sur le régime de retraite des employés du gouvernement et des organismes publics).

Do not hesitate to contact your union representative or ‘’Retraite Québec’’.

The coordinating committee of the FTQ

PL-163
2018-02-23