Act related to the implementation of recommendations from the retirement committees of certain pension plans from the public sector and modifying various legislative provisions (Q.L. 2014, chapter 11)
Changes to Your Pension Plan
The main modifications are presented below.
Recognition of paternity leave with benefits for a maximum of 5 weeks
Retirement plans concerned: PPPOCS and PPMP
Retroactive effective date: March 13, 2011 for the PPPOCS and May 29, 2012 for the PPMP
Since March 13, 2011 for the PPPOCS and May 29, 2012 for the PPMP, when you benefit from a paternity leave with
benefits for a maximum of 5 weeks, you no longer have to buy back
service related to the leave or avail yourself of the 90-day bank
used to offset absences not bought back. You continue contributing
to your pension plan.
Elements to considerr
- The pensionable salary corresponds to the salary that would
have been paid to you if you had continued working.
- The service credited to you is the service that would have
been credited to you if you had continued working.
- The contributions are calculated on an amount equal to your
full salary and correspond to the contributions you would have
paid if you had continued working.
- The contributions are withdrawn by the employer from the
benefits paid to you.
Addition of a clarification regarding the days that should not
be taken into account in the calculation of the additional
participation period
Retirement plan concerned: PPMP
Retroactive effective date: January 1, 2013
Since January 1, 2013, a full-time or part-time absence without
pay that occurred during the additional participation period
following your qualification period and for which you paid no
contribution is not taken into account for the calculation of that
period, and this, even if you buy back the corresponding service afterwards.
Modification of rules regarding the debt remission by CARRA
Retirement plans concerned: all plans
Effective date: November 19, 2014
The law renders uniform the application of remission of debts provided for by the RREGOP's law and regulations when a debt results from an administrative error that you would have reasonably been able to observe.
Therefore, since November 19, 2014, it is no longer possible to
remit a debt because of a low income when the debt in question
results from an administrative error that you would have reasonably
been able to observe.
Addition for an arbitrator of the power to assign a witness
Pension plans concerned: RREGOP, PPMP, RPSO, TPP, CSSP, PPPOCS, PPEMO, PPFEQ, RPCHCN
Effective date: November 19, 2014
Since November 19, 2014, as part of arbitration, the arbitrator
now has the power to assign a witness upon request from a party or
on his or her own initiative, and this, in order to obtain a
declaration from the witness or demand the production of documents.