What Public Pension Offers?
What are we proposing?
We support good health and sustainability of public pension system, but that does not mean it can not be improved, especially in regard to its solidarity and redistributive component. Therefore, we propose a series of reforms to increase revenues and make spending more equitable.
• Increase social security contributions for temporary contracts, so that in addition to raising more you promote stable employment.
• Increase employee contributions with a higher salary cap by removing the base price, so as to contribute more those who have more.
• Increase the minimum pension at the same time reduces the maximum as the current differences are unfair. Our commitment is for a solidarity system that redistributes wealth so there should be no difference or they would have to be the lowest possible rates. Is deeply rooted among the workers the idea that if an employee is listed more than another is just to have a higher pension. However, a person who pays more taxes more preference in the care or the square of a public school to another that pays less, so it need not be different with pensions. In the final analysis, both taxes and the prices it is logical that who else can contribute more but this is going to have more rights.
• If in the future would not have enough money from dues, nothing would happen to fund pensions also imposed through the national budget, as already happens in some countries, like Denmark.
In addition to possible reforms that can be done in the public system to strengthen and improve, there is an issue that also affects pensions and the neoliberals would rather not talk: the number of contributors. And there’s no better way to strengthen the pension system by increasing the number of contributors, for which you have to raise the population, especially among women, reduce unemployment and fight the shadow economy and contracting fraud through grants that are not quoted. To do this, we make the following proposals:
• Encourage the incorporation of women into the labor force occupied by schemes to facilitate the reconciliation of work and family life. Currently it is very difficult to combine work with caring for children or a dependent person, a task that as a result of sexism there still lies with the woman. Therefore, the best way to increase the participation rate of women, in addition to promoting the distribution of household chores is by improving social policy (public network of schools from 0 to 3 years, flexible hours in the companies for parents, etc.).
• Encourage the creation of youth employment. What sense does it raise the retirement age when we suffer a 40% youth unemployment? Would not it be logical that the greatest achievements well deserved rest while young people have the opportunity to start their career path and thus develop their life projects autonomously?
• To combat the underground economy. Finance technicians estimate the shadow economy in 23% of GDP. Can be estimated at 800,000 the number of workers who are not discharged from Social Security.
• strictly limit contributions subsidies agreed in the various programs for job creation because, assuming a huge public spending, have proved ineffective.
• Transform all scholarships are not strictly of studies, including the Administration, Contracts for Training with the corresponding high in Social Security.
• Fight fire practice radically to 11 months in fraud, making the holiday month I pay the Public Employment Services.
• more flexible retirement age on a voluntary basis in certain activities, encouraging in that case the board, under the principle of retirement and, therefore, the pension is a right and not an obligation.