Supreme Court denies pension severance for public employee retiring after sick pay if retirement age reached post-termination.

The Supreme Court dismissed the plaintiff's appeal for a pension severance payment, ruling that the statutory requirement of a direct causal link between employment termination and pension acquisition was not met. Although the plaintiff reached retirement age after stopping sick pay following job loss, the court found the timing coincidental rather than consequential. Consequently, the court held that the severance entitlement did not apply because the employee did not transition to retirement due to the termination itself.