Tag: pension reforms

• Saturday, April 22nd 2023 - 10:41 UTC

  Uruguayan banks and transport announce 24-hour strike for when?

  

  Uruguayan public transport drivers and bank clerks will stage a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest against President Luis Lacalle Pou's attempt to reform the country's pension system and increase the retirement age, which is causing concern, particularly when such a move was something the head of state had vowed during his campaign that he would not seek.

• Thursday, April 8th 2021 - 10:27 UTC

  Chile's Labor Minister Zaldívar resigns over pension reforms

  

  Chile's Labor Minister María José Zaldívar submitted her resignation Wednesday to President Sebastián Piñera, who accepted it and announced he would appoint Deputy Patricio Melero to succeed her.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  French transport strike enters fourth week with unions pledging to press on

  

  The head of a hard-line French trade union on Friday vowed to press on with a crippling strike that has cast a shadow over Christmas celebrations, with the stoppages entering a fourth week and becoming the longest-lasting such action since the 1980s.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Brazil' finance minister optimistic about pension reform and privatizations

  

  Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Wednesday he is “optimistic” that Congress will pass a pension reform bill that will generate savings of 1 trillion reais (US$ 261.68 billion) over 10 years, in line with the government’s ambitious proposal.

• Tuesday, January 15th 2019 - 08:36 UTC

  Bolsonaro pensions reforms aim to save some US$ 270bn in ten years

  

  Far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s new government wants to save 1 trillion Rreais (some US$ 269.48 billion) over 10 years via pension reforms economists say are vital to undo the growing fiscal deficit, a Brazilian newspaper reported on Monday.

• Thursday, March 15th 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Temer insists with a vote in Congress on pensions' reform next October

  

  Brazilian President Michel Temer said that he could lift the federal military intervention in Rio de Janeiro state by October to allow for a pension reform vote in Congress.

• Saturday, April 29th 2017 - 08:15 UTC

  Brazil general strike ends with riots and arson; Temer says he will continue with labor and pensions reforms

  

  Violence has erupted in Brazil at the end the country's first general strike in more than 20 years. Buses and cars have been set on fire in Rio de Janeiro's city centre while roads blocks set up by activists were also ablaze and some shops were vandalized.

• Thursday, August 11th 2016 - 06:28 UTC

  Bachelet forced to introduce reforms to Chile's private pension system

  

  Under pressure from the public, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet proposed changes to the most radical of all the economic reforms of former dictator Augusto Pinochet — the private pension system that inspired a wave of similar projects worldwide.

• Thursday, June 30th 2011 - 20:06 UTC

  Pickets take to the streets of Britain to protest pension reforms

  

  Teachers and civil servants marched through the streets and picketed government buildings across Britain today in protest at planned pension reforms, launching what could be a long period of labour unrest over austerity measures.