The long-awaited meeting between the Government and the trade unions on pensions has just ended after two and a half hours. At the center of the debate, the now famous increase in the retirement age linked to life expectancy which, starting from 2019, will force workers to retire five months later. Exit will be possible at 67 years from the current 66 years and 7 months.
Present at the meeting were Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, the Minister of Labour, Giuliano Poletti, the Minister of Economy, Pier Carlo Padoan, and the head of the Public Administration, Marianna Madia. Representing the unions, the general secretaries of CGIL, CISL and UIL: Susanna Camusso, Annamaria Furlan and Carmelo Barbagallo.
On the retirement age "we have established a table, which will have technical and political aspects, which will concern the possibility of extending the categories subject to heavy work to see if they can be detached from the automatic increase mechanism". This is the announcement of the Minister of Economy, Pier Carlo Padoan. However, the MEF number one explained that "the principle of age adjustment remains confirmed".
So confirmed the predictions of the eve. The adjustment of the retirement age to life expectancy, one of the cornerstones of the Fornero reform, remains standing, but workers who carry out onerous activities, based on intentions, will be exempt from the automatic adjustment mechanism.
“We have agreed that the technical roundtable will consider the possibility of modifying and improving the mechanisms that currently determine the frequency of adjustment of the retirement age under the constraint that any modifications do not affect the sustainability of the pension system which is a fundamental pillar of the financial sustainability of the country,” continued the minister.
“In the meeting many points of the budget law were appreciated by the unions in line with the requests made for some time. The themes of growth, employment of young people and social inclusion are the pillars” of the manoeuvre, concluded Padoan.
