Tag: pension system

• Friday, November 4th 2022 - 10:32 UTC

  Boric launches bill to change Chile's pension system

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font has submitted before Congress a bill to end the pension fund administrators system created under dictator Augusto Pinochet.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 09:08 UTC

  Another equality 'advance' for Swiss women, they will retire as 65, just like Swiss men

  

  Switzerland is known as a country of direct democracy since voting on referendums is practiced quite often, as happened on Sunday when voters accepted the government's pension reform albeit by a narrow margin.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  New Peruvian government silent about a second withdrawal of funds from the pension system

  

  The Peruvian government enacted a law that allows citizens a second withdrawal of funds from the private pension system in order to ease the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic, according to the official newspaper El Peruano.

• Wednesday, December 4th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Huge national strike challenges Macron's pension system overhaul

  

  Trains cancelled, schools closed: France scrambled to make contingency plans on Tuesday for a huge strike against pension overhauls that poses one of the biggest challenges yet to President Emmanuel Macron's sweeping reform drive.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  The Economist: “Despite turmoil, Brazil is starting to fix its pension system”

  

  Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, likes romantic metaphors. “Our marriage is stronger than ever,” he said in May after the press speculated that he was at odds with the economy minister, Paulo Guedes. “The marriage ended with no hard feelings,” he said this month after sacking Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, a minister who had said that others in government should be more careful on social media—thus outraging Bolsonaro fans who tweet about the virtues of military rule and the horrors of homosexuality.

• Monday, February 25th 2019 - 08:27 UTC

  Apocalyptic scenario for Brazil if pensions' reform is not approved, warns Economy ministry

  

  Brazil’s Economy Ministry warned that the economy will slip into recession next year and official interest rates could more than double unless Congress approves measures to reduce the deficit in the country’s pension system.