Court compels govt to adjust ex-civil servants’ pensions

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The High Court orders the public services department to effect the necessary payments within three months from today.  Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/01/16/court-compels-govt-to-adjust-ex-civil-servants-pensions/  Laporan Lanjut: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2025/01/16/mahkamah-paksa-kerajaan-selaras-pencen-pesara/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #CivilServants #Pensions #JPA

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00:00The High Court has ruled in favour of a group of ex-civil servants and ordered the government

00:06to expedite adjustments to their pensions in accordance with a previous court ruling.

00:12Justice Amarjit Singh said a service circular issued in 2016 had the effect of a salary

00:18revision for government servants.

00:20The judge said that as a result, government pensioners were entitled under the Pensions

00:25Adjustment Act 1980 to pensions corresponding to the adjusted salary.

00:30Amarjit ordered the Director-General of the Public Services Department to make the necessary

00:35pension payments within three months from today.

00:38On February 29, 2024, the High Court granted ex-civil servant Amina Ahmad and her co-applicants

00:44leave to commence judicial review proceedings.

00:48The application named the government and the JPA Director-General as respondents.

00:53It sought to compel the respondents to implement adjustments to their pensions in accordance

00:58with the formula prescribed in Sections 3 and 6 of the PAA prior to amendments to the

01:03law made in 2013.

01:06Hanyu Jo, FMT News.

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