Application of reducing coefficients in the retirement age of health risk professions
What are retirement age reduction coefficients? What sectors do they affect? What role does Social Security, Government, Courts or Employers have in the application?
In November 2011, the Government of JL Rodríguez Zapatero approved Royal Decree 1698/2011, which regulates the legal regime and the general procedure to establish reducing coefficients and anticipate the retirement age in the Social Security system. This Royal Decree establishes for the first time a general procedure for the application of coefficients reducing the retirement age for sectors that have high rates of hardship, unhealthiness, mortality or toxicity or for those activities that, due to their characteristics, cannot be developed from of a certain age.
The recognition and application of these coefficients allow workers of a certain level, profession, activity or sector, to advance a few years – depending on the reducing coefficient that is approved – the ordinary retirement age. At CGT we began to request the application of this new procedure for sectors and activities in which there were clear signs of health risks. The General Directorate of Social Security Regulation had the task of processing these applications. But the DGOSS began to put obstacles in the way of processing these files, requesting documentation that was impossible for the union organizations to prove, and at the same time stood idly by if the companies did not provide the required information. There is a gap in the application, while workers such as forest firefighters, asbestos, cast iron, petrochemical, thermal power plants, freight transport drivers and travelers, who are exposed to conditions harmful to their health, they are still waiting to be able to retire early without financial loss.
Meanwhile, the Government, Ministry of Social Security, Ministry of Labor, Employers and Courts provide themselves with all the institutional resources to deny the reduction coefficients to the most vulnerable workers, CGT does not resign, but maintains the clear conviction of achieving a retirement that deserves to be enjoyed by all those who have been forced to expose themselves to unhealthy situations during their working life. CGT is organizing an agitation and training campaign to raise awareness among the working class, just as all judicial tools are used to enforce the right to a retirement pension and the right to freedom of association. Because rights are useless if there is no one to defend them.
In the face of institutional paralysis, union organization. Killing yourself to work is shit. Reducing Coefficients Now!
That’s why we’ll see you on September 23 at 12 noon in Plaza de Cibeles (Madrid).
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