A meeting between the government and trade unions focused on the now famous raising the retirement age.
On Thursday 2 November, the Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, summoned the general secretaries of CGIL, CISL and UIL to Palazzo Chigi, thus responding to the requests presented by the various associations.
The central theme, as already mentioned, will be the maneuver and the increase freeze of the retirement age linked to life expectancy which currently has no place in the 2018 Budget law.
The will of the unions is now known: block the step envisaged by the Fornero reform which, from 2019, will cause workers to retire 5 months later. On the basis of the provisions of the current legislation, in fact, the retirement age will rise from 66 years and 7 months to 67 years, in line with the longer life expectancy.
The Democratic Party, through the deputy secretary Maurizio Martina and the coordinator of the secretariat, Lorenzo Guerini, asked to postpone the increase of retirement age and in the last few hours even Prime Minister Gentiloni would have said he was available to a six-month postponement. But Elsa Fornero herself intervened on the matter and stated in an interview with Ansa:
“Everyone happy with the Renzi proposal? I don't want to spoil the party, but be careful changing the law. We must be very careful not to pass the costs on to young people and future generations. Rather, they can be considered exceptions from a social point of view”.
The message is clear: the risk is that they will come again sacrificed resources that could be destined for young people and employment for older age groups.
Returning to pensions, to date, there are 16 million individuals who benefit from social security treatment, 6,3 million of whom receive a check of less than one thousand euros. This was reported by INPS which, through its observatory, confirms the existing gender differences: although women represent the majority share of total pensioners (52,7%), men receive 55,7% of pension income: the average amount of treatments received by women is in fact 29% lower than that of men (14.780 against 20.697 euros).
