Parliament intends to reduce the retirement age for the closure of state enterprises file "losers"

11/21/2016
Long-Presse / Baghdad
Promised by the Economic Commission parliamentary, that the proposal to reduce the retirement age for employees and enable them to buy the remaining term of their service, which is currently being discussed, serving state and corporate self-financing "losers" at the same time, while an economist felt that the application of that "gain" of the staff young and middle as well as the private sector service if it was voluntary, noting that it "is not intended" to inject new blood in government departments, because the government wants to reduce the number of employees. Said committee member Nora Albjara, in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The modified pension law is still discussing the financial and economic committees, the Parliamentary, saw the proposal to reduce the retirement age and the purchase of the remaining term of the service," pointing out that "modifying the pension law that has been in 2015 past, and it allowed the employees who serve 15 years ended the right of retirement was not applied. " She Albjara, that "the amendment was to reduce the number of employees especially to women with a service of 15 years, be Ihln to retire when after delivery, three children," indicating that this "para returned because the employee or the employee's remaining lifetime of service in the two or three position can the purchase of the remaining amount of the stops for those years to be referred to retirement. " Promised member of the parliamentary Economic Committee, that "the problem lies in a lifetime because the Commission wants reduced from fifty to 45 years, to encourage those who want to retirement, he urged continuing discussions in this regard to reach an appropriate formula," pointing out that "the reduction of the retirement age and the purchase of the remaining term It will serve much of the Ministries of Industry and minerals and the defense of self-financing loss-making companies, which includes a large number of employees some of them wanted to retirement age without the paragraph that hinder it. " Considered Albjara, that "lowering the age of retirement and the purchase of the remaining duration of the employee's service serving the state that are looking for money," afterthought "but it is still a proposal in the process of discussion to reach an acceptable formula are unanimous Economic and Financial Committees, before adding it as an amendment to the pension law with put its own instructions. " Parliamentary Finance Committee and submitted a proposal to reduce the retirement age from 50 to 45 years by buying the remaining duration of the service by the employee, within the amendments added to the law of public pension but did not vote on it within the Commission so far. On the other hand, he said the economist, Ahmed Rehn, said in an interview to the (long-Presse) that "optional early retirement of the employee can be a win-win situation to him," noting that "achieves economic feasibility of the government being when they take retirement decision early to consider the issue in financial terms, where comparing the employee's salary and emoluments, with his pension. " Rehn explained that "the amendment is not intended to inject new blood in government departments, because the government wants to reduce the number of employees," adding that "the proposal comes in favor of the young and middle-staff service." He wished economist, that "the proposed happen if a renaissance acknowledged in the private sector by making use of retirees to be beneficial largest," adding, "but it is certainly not an easy task, it may be that will help us conditions for security turn into a strategy and plan for the advancement of Al-Qaeda productivity of the Iraqi economy by increasing the demand for labor from different disciplines and professions powers. " The Cabinet has approved, in (the 19th of April 2016), the second amendment to the draft law to the Unified Retirement Law No. (9) for the year 2014, and forwarded directly to the House of Representatives. Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed in (the fifth of September 2016), on the quest to find a suitable for the advancement of companies self-financing and to address eliminating the salaries of university professors solutions, within the second amendment to the Uniform Code of retirement, while the Labour and Social Affairs, stressed that the majority of the House of Representatives objected to the granting exception of the age requirement for the Prime Minister no longer active. The Iraqi Council of Representatives, ended in (11 August 2016), the first reading of the draft social security law and the uniform retirement number nine for the year 2014.

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