{"id":236077,"date":"2026-01-13T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/236077\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:02:09","slug":"retired-mayo-council-worker-entitled-to-pension-increase-due-to-compulsory-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/236077\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Mayo council worker entitled to pension increase due to compulsory overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dump truck dumping gravel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/06fb518c-0a04-479e-88d8-47a442e1664e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dump truck dumping gravel<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A road maintenance worker with a county council for 50 years is entitled to have his pension payments increased because he worked at least nine hours compulsory overtime every week, the High Court ruled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Reckonable back payments to now retired Padraig Browne (83), who worked for Mayo Co Council, will however be limited to six years having regard to the six year statute of limitations period, Mr Justice Garrett Simons said. He will be entitled to a future increase in his ongoing pension payments to reflect the fact that he worked at least nine hours extra, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dump truck dumping gravel A road maintenance worker with a county council for 50 years is entitled to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,10075,266,267],"class_list":{"0":"post-236077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}