There have been many suggestions on how the future pension system should be screwed together, after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) has opened up a renegotiation of the so-called welfare agreement.
It says that the retirement age must increase as the general life expectancy also increases.
And the chairman of the trade union 3F, Henning Overgaard, does not mind that part in principle. He just believes that the right to the so-called Arne pension – which is actually called early pension – must follow at the same pace.
He says this to Børsen, referring to the fact that there is a difference between how long certain professional groups can keep working – and when they enter the labor market.
– You cannot just blindly continue to raise the retirement age without ensuring security and proper arrangements for those who have spent the most years on the labor market, he says to Børsen.
3F is the country’s largest trade union. Henning Overgaard does not believe that the proposal favors 3F’s members at the expense of others.
He just thinks it gives them a “fair and just” opportunity to be able to retire before their bodies wear out.
FH also believes that the right to Arne pension should be extended. Here, however, the position is also that the planned increase in the retirement age must be scrapped entirely.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
