Four months in advance for each child. This will be the new hypothesis on the pension front being evaluated by the government. The executive’s idea is to improve maternity access to all forms of retirement, net of what will be provided for the Women’s Option, which will have another channel.
Advance on pension to mother
A four-month advance measure for each child, which is not a real novelty: In fact, this is an option already envisaged by the Religious reform, but only for those with full contributions. The response will be at the center of a review meeting with the MEF, with whom Labor Minister Marina Calderone is in close contact, but it is already possible to make preliminary estimates of the economic “weight” of this measure: in the worst-case scenario, a four-month down payment is equivalent to an extra €700m will be. The new hypothesis was discussed today at the meeting between Under Secretary Claudio Durigon and the unions CGIL, CISL, UIL and Ugl on Monday, 13 February. The possibility of retiring up to 4 months already exists among women’s possibilities, as envisaged by the Religious reform, but when it comes to contribution-only pensions, the government plans to expand the target audience to include mixed pensioners. On the other hand, with regard to young people whose careers have been interrupted, the rationale prepared in the comparison table will be to ensure minimum integration if pensions are low at the end of their working career.
“Dead End” in Woman’s Choice
Regarding the choice of women, another agenda item, the expected news from the unions has not yet come. At the end of the meeting, a stalemate was summarized by UIL leader Pierpaolo Bombardieri: “The government put on the table its initial intention to change the rules of the budget law regarding the women’s option. It is the current approach, but it is not clear whether it will be renewed or renewed the rules that expired on 31 December. We will tell you in the coming days. They will respond because they are talking to the MEF about the necessary resources. They reiterated that it would be a win-win for the state coffers given that women lost 30% of their salaries with the re-establishment of women’s option as previously foreseen in the budget law against the first 5 years of spending increase rules during construction”.
CGIL: “Interview”
As CGIL confederal secretary Christian Ferrari underlined, “nothing has been done” that doesn’t make the unions happy: Women’s Choice A not-so-good signal for the credibility and seriousness of a path with quite different ambitions: A start for making a road that places women Reinstatement of Women’s Option conditions required for union as a point of contact. reliable in the centre. This data is currently not available”,
“If we can’t even get back to the starting point in women’s option, how can we give a real answer to the social security situation of women workers? That’s the question left for us at the end of this meeting – Ferrari asks again – As for youth pensions, CGIL wanted the discussion to be broadened: In addition to the social security measures required “We are moving in the opposite direction with the hypothesis that a critical social security perspective for young people, a return to full liberalization of the budget and fixed-term contract is being discussed,” he said.
“The Beginning of a Journey”
“Today is the beginning of a journey and our assessment is positive because we have already started to think in detail”. This is how CISL confederal secretary Ignazio Ganga sums up the outcome of today’s meeting on pension reform at the Ministry of Labor. “Compared to a general vision of reform, we actually go into some detail, starting with the possibility of bringing back motherhood not as an accidental phenomenon but within a possible reform,” he explains. And he sees the justification brought to the table as an expansion by the government, currently only available for contributions, to extend the possibility of early retirement to all women by 4 months per child. “But we need to better understand how that will take shape,” he continues.
Source: Today IT
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