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Has anybody worked part-time while on career break from the public service?
I work in the public service and would like to take a career break for a year to go back to college. The only thing holding me back is that I’m not sure what money I can earn while on career break. I have a couple of quid saved but not enough to survive on for a whole year, of course.
In the terms set out for career breaks in the public service it says you can’t ‘take up alternative employment within the State’. Does this just mean simply that you can’t have a full-time job, or does it mean as well that you can’t work part-time?
My plan was to go back to college and work maybe 10 hours a week to help pay the bills.
[FONT="]I have tried finding out if I am allowed to do this by reading the Department of Finance circulars and by asking my personel department, but nobody seems to know the answer to my question. Maybe askaboutmoney will have the answer!!![/FONT]
I work in the public service and would like to take a career break for a year to go back to college. The only thing holding me back is that I’m not sure what money I can earn while on career break. I have a couple of quid saved but not enough to survive on for a whole year, of course.
In the terms set out for career breaks in the public service it says you can’t ‘take up alternative employment within the State’. Does this just mean simply that you can’t have a full-time job, or does it mean as well that you can’t work part-time?
My plan was to go back to college and work maybe 10 hours a week to help pay the bills.
[FONT="]I have tried finding out if I am allowed to do this by reading the Department of Finance circulars and by asking my personel department, but nobody seems to know the answer to my question. Maybe askaboutmoney will have the answer!!![/FONT]