Male nursing / [compiled by the Appointments Department of the Ministry of Labour and National Service...].

Date:
1945
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Male nursing / [compiled by the Appointments Department of the Ministry of Labour and National Service...]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eligible to participate in the Superannuation Scheme of the Local Authority. The Local Government Superannuation Acts, 1937 and 1939 and the corresponding Scottish Acts apply, with a few exceptions, to all officers of Local Authorities who are employed whole time and to such classes of servants as may be specified by a Local Authority by statutory resolu- tion. The minimum age at which persons may enter into the scheme is eighteen, and sixty-five is the compulsory retiring age. Persons who are over fifty-five years of age on taking up employment and cannot complete ten years’ service before reaching sixty-five are not allowed to become contributory employees. A superannuation allowance may be claimed by a contributor when he reaches sixty years of age after forty years’ service, or earlier on the grounds of permanent ill-health if the minimum of ten years’ service has been completed. Contributions by employees are normally six per cent. of their annual remuneration. The superannuation allowance paid is at the rate of one-sixtieth of the annual average remuneration over the last five years of service for each and-twentieth for each year of non-contributing service ; no superannuation allowance can exceed two-thirds of the average remuneration. Gratuities may be granted to those to be employed. In general, provision is made for the transfer of accrued pension rights where the nurse changes service from one Local Authority to another. At present the superannuation schemes applicable to nurses of voluntary hospitals and those of Local Authorities are not interchangeable. Nurses, therefore who have held posts at voluntary hospitals and who wish to gain experience in public health work under a Local Authority may at present experience difficulty on this account. The Joint Super- annuation Sub-Committee of the Rushcliffe and Taylor Committees has recently published a report making recom- mendations, the object of which is to secure uniformity and interchangeability of superannuation rates for nurses. Legis- lation will be required to implement the recommendations and the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland are now considering the Sub-Committee’s Report. 1]