The three months of negotiation on the reform of early retirement (called "bridge-retirement" – concerning people who worked in difficult conditions) ended in failure. On September 24, during the meeting with the tripartite commission, the Social Partners couldn’t find a compromise on the text of the reform. They mostly disagree on the disappearance, eventually, of this system, and on the categories of workers concerned by these early retirements. The government is preparing a bill which doesn't take into account the talks within the commission. (Ref. 080728)
The Social Partners were agitated at the end of the last meeting of the tripartite commission: the trade unions refused to go on with the negotiations, since they didn’t get what they demanded on the duration of the system and on the field of application of the reform. The Minister of Labor, Jolanta Fedak, even questioned the purpose of this social dialogue structure. “Unions’ attitude questions the meaning of the tripartite commission” she said.
Highly sensitive reform. The current legislation
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