Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-11-Speech-2-247"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20030211.10.2-247"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:translated text |
".
I agree that, at the moment, we urgently need to integrate workers over 55 years old into the European labour market.
The figures are indeed worrying. Only 37% of people over 55 are still in work in Europe. Early retirement has been used as a restructuring mechanism in most countries for years now. It has put a large number of people out of work and of course, as the information society restructures, older workers are the first to go. When we analyse pension systems and their problems, we generally talk of the need to increase the retirement age. This is an economic approach which numerous countries need to take; at the same time, however, we cannot increase the retirement age unless there are specific policies and incentives, as you said, for these people to enter the labour market, which is why, at European level at least, one of the main priorities in our Employment Strategy and in our recent review of this strategy has been the over-55s.
Under the Barcelona target, every country undertook to have 50% of the over-55s in work by 2010. Every country also undertook to include a percentage of over-55s in training and in training and lifelong learning policy; in other words, there will be incentives in the form of tax relief or subsidies to encourage these people to go back to work.
Of course, there is the major social sector you referred to, where you do not have full employment but you offer social services with certain specific incentives. This is the active ageing policy we constantly support and which is included in our guidelines."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples