Poland : towards a new early retirement system

Poland is preparing a deep reform for its early retirement system. Currently, 1,250,000 Polish employees are entitled to it, because they performed jobs regarded as "painful". A bill aiming at restricting the conditions will be discussed before Parliament tomorrow. (Ref. 070339)
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Restrictive conditions to early retirement. With this reform, set up by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, there will now be two definitions of what painful work is: 1/ work performed in very hard conditions; 2/ work with a special character, that is to say jobs where natural weakening of physical and psychological abilities can endanger public security. Answering to these two definitions, 51 jobs were thus selected: train and public transportation drivers, truck drivers, pilots, navigat

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