Pensions, Durigon: 'In the manoeuvre the stop to the age increase'

'I have already spoken with Minister Giorgetti and met with his willingness to include the measure within the Budget Law'. Thus Undersecretary for Labour Claudio Durigon in an interview with Sussidiario.net at the Rimini Meeting on the subject of freezing the age requirement for retirement, which would otherwise increase from 2027. For the undersecretary on social security, the so-called Giorgetti bonus is also 'fundamental', 'a measure,' he emphasised, 'that strengthens the freedom of the worker, whether it is to remain in his job or to be able to retire earlier.

Option Donna 'should be strengthened because today it is an inefficient measure and has had little appeal. Quota 103, on the other hand, given its low utilisation, I do not think it can represent an optimal form of flexibility on exit," Durigon continued. In order to strengthen the allowances of those who will retire from work with the contribution-based system, 'we need a mechanism that incentivises investment in future pensions, through the second pillar, which we have already begun to integrate more closely with the first, also in order to achieve the requisites necessary for access to retirement'.

There was a first taste of intervention in the last manoeuvre, which opened up the possibility for fully 'contributory' workers to leave work at 64 years of age through the accumulation of compulsory and complementary social security. Among the hypotheses being studied is that of allowing this possibility also to those who are in a mixed system and have at least 25 years of contributions. Pressing this is above all the League, which, as Durigon has repeatedly said, wants 64 years of age to become 'the true threshold of pension freedom', as it is fair and adequate with respect to the current world of work'.

"We are considering proposing that the Tfr stopped at the Inps, of companies over 50 employees, could be an annuity, to give relief and have pensions a little stronger," added Durigon, on the sidelines of a Confagricoltura event at the Rimini Meeting. "We do not exclude,' he explained, 'including in this context the possibility of 'long term care', we know the suffering there is on health, having this insurance system could also give important answers to our pensioners. The knot is also that of resources for complementary pensions: 'We are talking about a contributory system, if the severance pay goes into the annuity it is no longer an outlay that the Inps makes'.

Among the proposals with a view to the next manoeuvre, 'as the League we have proposals to make bargaining more efficient and avoid situations of prolonged contractual vacatio, in some cases even up to eight years, which damage workers and their wages. At the very least, the new wage levels resulting from the renewal should start from the day the contract expired,' Durigon added. 'Through advances or increases linked to cost-of-living trends, and a defiscalisation of renewals that take place at the right time,' he explained, 'we can pursue this objective, leaving it up to the parties to identify the most appropriate mechanism.