Poland: early retirement rules hang in balance

Since the Diet permanently adopted the law which limits access to early retirement to arduous work (see our dispatch No. 080728), Poland's key trade unions have stepped up their lobbying efforts to push President Kaczynski to veto this text, set to come into effect on January 1, 2009. This law significantly limits the trades which can benefit from this system. (Ref. 080950)
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Significant eligibility reductions. The new rules, recently approved by the Polish lower parliamentary house and now awaiting a presidential signature, plan a 70% cut in the number of Polish workers eligible to retire five years earlier without pension cuts (in other words aged 60 for men and 55 for women). This is to be effected by limiting the number of “heavy, dangerous or arduous” occupational categories jobs down to 40 professions. This re-classification would exclude a number of professio

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