The European parliament should speak out on April 23, in a first reading, for or against the proposal for a directive on the portability of the supplementary pension rights. The draft report adopted on March 22 by the European MPs of the social affairs commission, removed from the text any commitment to enable the employee leaving his/her company to transfer the rights he acquired in his/her company pension scheme towards another and simply brings closer national legislation in terms of acquisition and guarantee conditions for the vested rights. (Ref. 070304)
The Commission’s initial offer wanted to encourage workers’ mobility, geographical as well as professional, by enabling the employee leaving his/her company to transfer the rights he/she acquired in a professional pension scheme towards another scheme, and if the need arises, managed in another member State. European deputies and national governments (see our story n°06506) are stuck on this goal, hard to establish given the diversity of national practices in this matter. Some countries do not
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