Gradual increase of retirement age for women in the public service. While they could, until now, choose to retire at 60 instead of 65 (which the European Commission views as a violation of the principle of gender equality, driving it to open infringement proceedings against Italy in June), article 22 of the new law will gradually increase legal retirement age for women up to 65 in 2018, at the rate of one more year every two years starting in 2018. However, employees who meet the criteria before December 31, 2009 can retire according to the previous law.
zetta Ufficiale) on August 4, validates most of the decree-law No. 78/2009 on the new government measures to face the crisis (see our dispatch No. 090688), adopted as part of a delegation procedure. While it went from one validating chamber to the other, the government introduced new key amendments, including a reform of retirement age.
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