Important promise: pension age remains, SPÖ demands new perspectives!

Important promise: pension age remains, SPÖ demands new perspectives!

Deutschland - The SPÖ federal manager Klaus RAUSHEIM recently submitted positive feedback on the statements of the ÖVP club chairman August Wöginger. The latter had made it clear that an increase in the statutory retirement age was not being planned. According to RASTHEIM, this is an important sign for employees who worked in the economy all their lives and are now dependent on reliable framework conditions. He emphasized the need for respect and reliability in order to ensure the quality of life of these citizens, and assured that the population can trust that the current government will not increase the age of pension.

rarely also called for real opportunities for age -appropriate employment. Instead of pressure on employees, it is essential to take measures that enable people to stay healthy in working life for longer. In this context, he referred to the partial board and employment campaign 55PLUS initiated by the Federal Government in order to gradually introduce the actual retirement age to the statutory. These initiatives should enable a dignified transition to the pension and improve the perspectives for older workers.

The challenges and solutions for older workers

Rare home called for a critical examination of the often use concept "pension robbery". He demands fair framework conditions, age -appropriate jobs and social security for older workers. These demands are in the context of a broader discussion about age limits and the structures of pension policy, which also play a central role in Germany.

In Germany, the age limits in statutory pension insurance vary significantly depending on the professional group. While certain industries, such as the mountain system, have special age limits, special retirement age limits also apply to other professional groups such as civil servants, military members as well as fire brigade and police officers. These regulations are increasingly the target of discrimination lawsuits, especially since the standard age limit has been increased to 67 years. This has a debate about an early pensioner for stressful professions, such as roofers.

stressful professions and international perspectives

In the professional group of carpenters, roofers and scaffolders, it can be observed that many employees are young and hardly any older workers are active in previous activities. Older employees in these professions are often no longer able to do their original work. It is unrealistic for many of those affected to get official recognition as a disabled person. Since 2001 there has also been no disability pension, which further tightens the situation.

The identification of stressful professions is a complicated task, as is the determination of time duration for pension insurance. However, international examples of stress -differentiated age limits show that such regulations are possible and sensible. Germany could also be based on obligations of the 1967 ILO Agreement, which provides for a reduction in the prescribed age for strenuous or harmful professions.