The government and the trade unions on Wednesday signed a draft deal on pension and social security measures to be taken in the next three years, including earlier retirement on lower money, people who started work early, and increasing a summer bonus for pensioners on the lowest pensions, ANSA sources said.
The government plans to put some of these measures in the 2017 budget bill.
Among the measures is a summer bonus to 3.3 million pensioners with monthly income of under 1,000 euros, meaning that the bonus would be extended to an extra 1.2 million people.
Another measure says anyone who worked 12 months before turning 19 can retire after 41 years in the workforce if they are jobless without benefits, disabled, or have worked in physically demanding sectors, sources present at the labor ministry talks said Wednesday.
Photo: Union leaders at the govt-labor pension talks
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