Jobs | Restrictions to employment at DCU

Here are some of the main agreements and schemes that may restrict a candidate's right to be re-employed in the public service or affect how they are re­ employed. 

The list is not exhaustive, so prospective candidates should declare any other agreements or arrangements that they may have availed of that affects or restricts their re-employment in the Public Service.

• Collective Agreement: Redundancy Payments to Public Servants

  The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform letter dated 28^th June 2012 to Personnel Officers introduced, with effect from 1^st June 2012, a Collective Agreement which had been reached between the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Public Services Committee of the ICTU in relation to ex-gratia Redundancy Payments to Public Servants. It is a condition of the Collective Agreement that persons availing of the agreement will not be eligible for re-employment in the public service by any public service body (as defined by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts 2009 - 2011) for a period of 2 years from termination of the employment. 

• lncentivised Scheme for Early Retirement (ISER) It is a condition of the lncentivised Scheme for Early Retirement (ISER) as set out in Department of Finance Circular 12/09 that retirees, under that Scheme, are debarred from applying for another position in the same employment or the same sector. Therefore, such retirees may not apply for such positions with Dublin City University.

• Department of Education and Skills Early Retirement Scheme for Teachers Circular 102/2007: The Department of Education and Skills introduced an Early Retirement Scheme for Teachers. It is a condition of the Early Retirement Scheme that with the exception of the situations set out in paragraphs 10.2 and 10.3 of the relevant circular, and with those exceptions only, if a teacher accepts early retirement under Strands 1, 2 or 3 of this scheme and is subsequently employed in any capacity in any area of the public sector, payment of pension to that person under the scheme will immediately cease. Pension payments will, however, be resumed on the ceasing  of such employment or on the person's 60th birthday, whichever is the later, but on resumption, the pension will be based on  the person's actual reckonable service as a teacher (i.e. the added years previously granted will not be taken into account in the calculation of the pension payment).

• Department of Health and Children Circular (7/2010): The Department of Health Circular 7/2010 dated 1 November 2010 introduced a Targeted Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) Scheme and Voluntary Redundancy Schemes (VRS). It is a condition of the VER scheme that persons availing of the scheme will not be eligible for re-employment in the public health sector or in the wider public service or in a body wholly or mainly funded from public moneys. The same prohibition on re-employment applies under the VRS, except that the prohibition is for a period of 7 years. People who availed of VER are not eligible to compete for competitions at DCU.   Those who availed of VRS and who may be successful in competition for roles at DCU will have to prove their eligibility (eg. expiry of the period of non-eligibility).   

Applicants will be required to declare whether they have previously availed of a Public Service scheme of incentivised early retirement. Applicants will also be required to declare any entitlements to a Public Service pension benefit (in payment or preserved) from any other Public Service employment and/or where they have received a payment-in-lieu in respect of service in any Public Service employment.

• Ill-Health Retirement: Please note that where an individual has retired from a Civil/Public Service body on the grounds of ill-health his/her pension from that employment may be subject to review in accordance with the rules of ill-health retirement within the pension scheme of that employment
• Pension Abatement: Successful candidates who have been previously employed in the public service and in receipt of a pension OR where a public service pension comes into payment during his/her re-employment, that pension will be subject to abatement in accordance with Section 52 of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012. Changes to pay and/or public service pensions during re-employment will require the level of abatement to be reviewed and must be notified by the staff member to the relevant pension paying authority.  Any overpayments arising may be recouped through your pension in accordance with normal University policy and procedures. 

Abatement will be applied on a pro rata basis (e.g. where re-employment is on a part-time basis) in line with “Circular 24/2022 Explanatory Document” Guidance on the application of Abatement of Public Service Occupational Pensions under Section 52 (1) to (5) of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012.