File 1 - Widowers’ pension 1977-1979

219pp

Material in this file includes letter from Mary Robinson (MR) to Mr Brown, Clerk to the Trustee, Leinster House, enquiring if pension scheme of Oireachtas members operates in favour of widower in same way as it does for widow (22/02/1977); letter from Jerusha McCormack, member of Academic staff committee, UCD [University College Dublin] 02/01/1978 re pensions scheme in UCD; correspondence between MR as Senator and Office of Minister of Public Service, Houses of the Oireachtas (Members) Pensions Fund, Minister for Finance and The Public Service, Richie Ryan, TD [Teachta Dála; member of Irish parliament] 03/03/1977-12/01/1978; correspondence with Office of Minister for Tourism and Transport 25/01/1978; photocopy of 1946 Industrial Relations Act Labour Court Provisional rules; Council of Europe reply from Committee of Ministers to written question from Mr Peridier re pension scheme for Council of Europe staff 16/02/1978; drafts of application to Equality Officer under Anti-Discrimination Pay Act 1974, parties Senator MR, Mr Nicholas Robinson (NR) and the Minister for the Public Service, mid 1978; copy of audited accounts of the trustees (Houses of the Oireachtas (members) Pensions Fund), Y/E 31/12/1977; memo from NR to MR 16/11/1978; copy of judgement in Labour Court of UCD v Irish Federation of University Teachers (Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act 1974), 11/09/1979; typed copy of submission of Department to Equality Officer re provision of widowers' pensions in the Houses of the Oireachtas (members) scheme, n.d.; correspondence with Equality Officer, Labour Court 30/03/1978-17/10/1978; handwritten notes; copy of judgement in Labour Court of Unidare Ltd and The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union 08/12/1978; text of presentation at appeal to Labour Court, ITGWU [Irish Transport and General Workers Union] representing MR, 21/03/1979; typed copies of Equality Officer's recommendation, 21/03/1979; research material including other case in UK; copy of judgement in Labour Court of Dept of the Public Service and Senator Mrs Mary Robinson, represented by ITGWU, 7/5/1979; correspondence with EEA [Equality Employment Agency] 01/10/1979; typed copies of address “Sex Discrimination in Pension schemes”, by Senator MR to Irish Association of Pension Funds, Dublin 10/12/1979; typed article/address by John Dunne "Anti-Discrimination - Pension Schemes", 10/12/1979; cuttings 20/12/1978-12/5/1979.

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