Pension rights and adoptive leave extended
by Bernard Harbor
 
The couples will be able to choose who takes the leave.
The couples will be able to choose who takes the leave.

The Cabinet last week approved proposed amendments to the 1995 Adoptive Leave Act, which will enable married male same-sex couples to avail of adoptive leave.

 

The couples will be able to choose who takes the leave.

 

In a separate development, a new official circular gives effect to a legal pension right for same sex couples who were unable to marry or enter a civil partnership prior to retirement from the public service. They now have access to the public service pension spouses’ and children’s scheme.

 

Published at the end of November, the circular has limited application as it is only relevant to former members of the original public service spouses’ and children’s scheme or former pensionable public servants who didn’t join an original scheme when the option was made available to them.

 

The change is not relevant to members and former members of the ‘revised’ spouses’ and children’s scheme or to members of the single public service scheme, which applies to public servants employed since January 2013. This is because both schemes already include the provision.

 

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