Forced to resign job because of ill health by company

Dodger

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Query I had to retire on grounds of ill health as company sent me to CMO.They used my disability which was known to them and used it to insist that I RGIH as I could not carry out new duties offered to me.They have now retired me whilst my Union say RGIH is best option but I feel company have done away with my job by giving it to someone else in a different location without giving me any compensation for the loss of my job. I am not entitled to a redundancy payment as I was on a d stamp My Union do not want to carry my grievances any further and are doing nothing on my behalf with the company Should I contact the labour court and make my own case as union and employer have let me down.
 
1. I was on a Class D (Social Welfare) Stamp and I received a lump sum + pension when I retired early.
2. Your company did not retire you, your Chief Medical Officer did. I reckon he informed you that you were not fit to carry the full range of duties allotted to your grade.
3. You get added service because you were retired on grounds of ill health (up to 7.5 years or thereabouts).
4. If you were retired on grounds of ill health you are entitled to a pension based on your total service + added for Ill Health.

Anything your union comes up with is overridden by the Chief Medical Officer. You are free to work elsewhere. If you contact the labour court you are wasting your time. Sorry for being so blunt.
 
Thanks for your reply Leper,
1 I am getting incapacity supplement now as company say because of my occupational injury I cannot take up new work options.
2 I was given added years up to 60 about 2 years but feel I should have been given added years up to 65 years in circumstances where my job was taken away from me.After all my years of service I have been forced to sign off which I have done under protest .I have now initiated a grievance procedure with the company as they have now given me that option.i was given this option during the week my service was to finish,filled in grievances but am getting no reply from company or union.
3. The work the company wanted me to do was physical work which was not similar to what I was doing
The company say they only have to give added years up to 60 years and I am not entitled to redundancy.
Because of this I cannot take up employment again.
I was not out of work when I was sent to CMO as a disabled worker I feel I have been treated unfairly and company and union are not assisting me and have agreed to close my area using my disability not to compensate me for my loss of earnings up to 65.
 
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Dodger, I feel you will get nowhere with your grievance procedure other than add to yours and theirs paperwork. The Public Service can call in their chips at any time and they can easily invoke the retire-at-60 rule where they can. You are a prime example of this. The Chief Medical Officer has spoken and you are on a hiding to nothing.
 
Dodger, I feel you will get nowhere with your grievance procedure other than add to yours and theirs paperwork. The Public Service can call in their chips at any time and they can easily invoke the retire-at-60 rule where they can. You are a prime example of this. The Chief Medical Officer has spoken and you are on a hiding to nothing.
 
Thanks Leper actually I worked for a telecommunications company which is no longer civil service when it suits.
 
Thanks Leper actually I worked for a telecommunications company which is no longer civil service when it suits.
Is the work you carried out still being done at, or near, the location in which you worked?
 
Thank you Leo. It does not matter now I am on pension.They now want to talk to me
 
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