There are a number of different circumstances which may cause you to be absent from work. These absences have different effects on your pension benefits:
- Sickness
- Child related leave (maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave, and neonatal care leave)
- Jury service
- Reserve Forces leave
- Authorised unpaid leave
- Unauthorised unpaid leave
- Strike action
- Parental leave
- Career break
- Carer's leave