The retirement package is being refined for Cabinet to examine.
The Public Service Commission confirmed there is no mandatory retirement age in Public Service legislation or policy at present.
Nor is there an age at which a public servant can opt to take voluntary retirement. Cook Islanders can begin collecting the old age pension at 60.
Cabinet is also going to be told public sector employee level is reaching the same critical number as in 1996 and hard decisions will need to be made to rein back the current government growth rate.
