SMTP Lecture 6

SMT&P: Employment issues –

Staff and Directors

Staff issues and general matters

• Definitions of employment
• Employer/employee relationship
• The contract
• Duties of employer
• Duties of employee
• Dismissal
• Pitfalls
• Probationary periods
• Non-standard employment........
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SMT&P:

Pensions Component

Lecture 3

Major issues in fund management and activity: Part 2

Detail and behaviour

• • The role of the trustee

In general, trustees’ duties and latitude to act ....

MA (CG)  2009/10

Semester 1

SMT&P:

Pensions Component

Lecture 2

Major issues in fund management and activity: Part 1

Overview

• • Size  and significance
• • Volatility
• • Impact on economic activity
• • The obligations of the State
• • The retreat of the State
• • The State’s influence over the management of funds
• • Taxation and pension funds
• • Mismanagement and fraud
• • Fund failure

Basic concepts and descriptions

• • Pensions structures considered
• • Proposals for State pension reform

Major issues in fund management and activity

Governance issues