With the 2025 pension package, the Federal Government is taking an important and correct step to further develop the pension system: It is central that people achieve the existing regular pension age healthy. But despite some important steps in this direction, there are still significant measures from AK perspective, for which it would be more willing than before. A legal output cover from 2030 to the extent of the savings, which would correspond to an increase in the statutory retirement age by one year, is therefore hasty. “It cannot be that at the end only the employees: inside make their contribution, the companies also have to ensure that people can also stay healthy until the pension,” said AK director Silvia Hruška-Frank.
From a AK perspective, the partial board enables a step-by-case sliding from the work process, if a good net income is guaranteed, despite reduction in working time and a higher pension later. A drop of bitterness is the restriction of partial retirement to three years, but here it was created. The older employment package with the aim of achieving the regular pension age is also useful from a AK perspective.
But here there are still no essential measures for which there would have to be more movement on the side of the economy, such as an incentive system for companies, prevention and rehabilitation measures, avoiding illness and incapacity to work and a qualification offensive that opens up older workers: inside.
The AK therefore supports the demand for a bonus malus system made by Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer (SPÖ) in the Sunday crown to put pressure on employers who do not employ older people.
A look at the facts shows how necessary these measures are:
+ There are around 46,000 companies of 10 employees: inside, these companies employ 3.1 million employees: inside, 137,000 between 60 and 64 years (100,000 men, 40,000 women).
+ A quarter of the 25,000 middle and larger companies with more than 20 employees: Inside, no 60- to 64-year-olds employ.
+ In the production of goods, there are around 6,200 companies with more than 10 employees, where around 570,000 people are employed, around 23,000 of which are over 60 years – that is 4 percent.
+ Around 2,400 companies or 40 percent of the 6,200 companies in the manufacture of goods do not employ a man over 60, and around 4,800 companies or 80 percent do not employ a woman over 60.
+ Two out of five people retire directly from unemployment.
+ A third of women do not retire from gainful employment. This proportion is even higher among the workers. This situation threatens to tighten due to the increasing pension age.