{"id":39887,"date":"2025-09-24T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/39887\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:12:08","slug":"high-court-dismisses-bainimaramas-pension-case-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/39887\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court dismisses Bainimarama\u2019s pension case \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/voreqe-bainimarama.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[File Photo]<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"127\" data-end=\"246\">The Suva High Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama against the government.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"248\" data-end=\"476\">Bainimarama was seeking over $337,000 in unpaid gratuity and a fortnightly pension of more than $7,000. He argued the payments were wrongly calculated based on a temporarily reduced salary instead of his statutory entitlement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"478\" data-end=\"659\">But Judge Justice Daniel Goundar ruled that under section 11 of the Parliamentary Remuneration Act 2014, salary and allowances remain in effect until Parliament makes a new determination.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"661\" data-end=\"746\">The case related to Bainimarama\u2019s alleged unpaid pension and gratuity entitlements.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[File Photo] The Suva High Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-39887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}