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Berlin (dpa) - Germany's employers have demanded that if the average life expectancy in Germany continues to rise, the length of work in the life of an employee should also increase.
“In the coming years, the“ baby boomer ”generation will retire and the pressure on our social security systems will increase due to this demographic change,” said employer president Rainer Dulger of the German press agency in Berlin.
"That is why it is clear - and we should all be honest about this topic: If our life expectancy continues to rise, our working life must inevitably increase too."
Dulger said: "There is no alternative but for the costs of an aging society to be shared among the generations - because this is the only way to maintain long-term confidence in the statutory pension."
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The member of the Council of Economic Wise Men, Monika Schnitzer, argued similarly.
In the "Handelsblatt" she urged haste to gain a lead: "We have to act quickly because it is easier to accept when people know that this extension will only start in a few years."
He thinks nothing of ideas to finance the challenges in retirement through debts.
"Such approaches are window dressing," said Dulger.
"That is why we also need a structural renewal and an adjustment to demographic change so that the social security funds can fulfill their tasks in the long term."
Lip service would no longer be enough.
Dulger demanded that the goal of not allowing social security contributions to rise above 40 percent must be enshrined in constitutional law.
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Pension insurance press area
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Changes in the pension insurance as of January 1st
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Report on the obligation to provide for self-employed persons
Federal Ministry of Labor on the pension
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