File 5 - Discrimination in Civil Service Pension Schemes

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Material in this file relates to cases of discrimination in various pension schemes towards illegitimate children, single mothers, children of widows/widowers not in the various pension schemes, and others and includes correspondence between Mary Robinson (MR) and Eddie Higgins, Secretary, Federated Workers Union of Ireland (FWUI) relating to dispute taken to Labour Court involving several State bodies, over non-cover of illegitimate children under public service Spouses and Children’s Pension Schemes, 15/05/1981-22/09/1981; letter to MR from multiple signatories, St. Catherines, Girls National School, Cabra, County Dublin, asking her to support to rectify omission of children of single parent teachers from the pension scheme being introduced by the Department of Education, 198[1?]; correspondence between Sylvia Meehan, Employment Equality Agency and the Department of Health relating to lack of survivor's benefits for widowers and children of female members of the Voluntary Hospitals Superannuation Scheme, 16-26/06/1981; booklet of Trinity College Dublin's Pension Scheme, which showed no pension scheme for female staff, 09/07/1981; correspondence with Philomena Curran, Lecturer in Botany, University College Galway, in relation to female staff having to pay into pension scheme but getting no benefits, 22/09-12/10/1981.

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