Social security: trade unions refuse to raise retirement age

La Ceols, the central union that brings together workers from the public and private sectors, autonomous, informal, women caregivers, rejected on Thursday, April 24, the statements of the president of the Board of Directors of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), Eduardo Peña, last Wednesday, in the city of Cuenca, about the conversations on retirement age, which is currently 65 years old, held at the citizen dialogue tables on socia…

Recently, there have been questions about the possibility of raising the retirement age by the government. The President of ZUS Zbigniew Derdziuk spoke. His statement is unequivocal.

In 2007 the economist Hugo Bai joined the team of the Cuesta Duarte Institute, of the PIT-CNT. He accumulated a long journey advising unions in the Tyroneans of the salary councils and, eight years later, Ramón Ruiz, elected by the workers to represent them in the direction of the Social Security Bank (BPS), finished convincing him to join the team. He was fulfilling that role that intervened in the Commission of Experts on Social Security conve…

Currently, the requirements for access to retirement in Ecuador remain unchanged: 360 contributions and 60 years of age. The post IESS denies rumors about changes in retirement age in Ecuador appeared first on El Diario.

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