At a joint press conference on Tuesday, SPÖ leader Andreas Babler and social spokesman Josef Muchitsch also called for, among other things, incentives for raising the actual retirement age. In addition to the pension issue, the SPÖ also wanted to signal unity at the meeting, as Muchitsch had criticized Babler the previous week.
In an interview, the FSG chairman spoke out in favor of a more business-friendly positioning for the party leader. Babler has tied up the left half, but the “big goal” cannot be achieved with it, he said with a view to the upcoming National Council election. Muchitsch said on Tuesday when asked by a journalist that he regretted how his statement was received. Babler said he wanted to take a clear stance and pointed out the demands on the subject of pensions.
Pension system better protected from intervention
With his policy, the SPÖ leader wants to create legal rights, as he said at the press conference. Anyone who has worked for decades should also be entitled to legally secured state pensions. If the principles of statutory pension insurance – a solidarity-based compulsory insurance financed according to the pay-as-you-go system 0 – are incorporated into the constitution, the state pension system would be better protected once morest interference.
The Social Democrats also want a personnel offensive in the areas of health, child education and care, incentives for raising the actual retirement age, a commitment once morest increasing the current statutory retirement age and measures to get women out of the “part-time trap”. The party also submitted the demands to the Social Committee of the National Council on Tuesday via a motion for a resolution.
More child care, reduced working hours
Women who take on a large part of the “care work” would currently receive an average of around 40 percent less pension, according to Babler. In order to solve this problem, childcare needs to be expanded. In professions such as nursing, a reduction in working hours is necessary, Babler also said. Around 73 percent of employees in geriatric care and care for the disabled doubt that they will be able to work until the statutory retirement age. These jobs should be recognized as hard work, said Muchitsch.
With a second application, the SPÖ wants to abolish the currently suspended aliquoting of the first pension adjustment. This means that it depends on the month in which you start how high the adjustment will be in the first (full) year of retirement. The later in the year you retire, the smaller the increase will be in the following year. The SPÖ and FPÖ were dismissed with a complaint once morest the aliquoting before the Constitutional Court (VfGH). The SPÖ is also calling for the protective clause, which is intended to prevent an impending loss of value for this year’s pension cohort, to be extended indefinitely.
Criticism from the Neos
Babler and Muchitsch were convinced that the pension system was definitely fit for the future. According to the EU’s “Aging Report 2021”, state spending on pensions would only increase by 0.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2070, said the SPÖ leader. Pensions would be affordable if jobs were created and secured and women were taken out of the part-time trap, said Muchitsch.
The Neos see it differently. “The Court of Auditors, the OECD, the EU Commission, the IMF, the Fiscal Council, pretty much all national and international experts – all in unison are calling for far-reaching reforms in the Austrian pension system,” said social spokesman Gerald Loacker in a broadcast. The increasing life expectancy must be reflected in the pension formula, he demanded.
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