Translation of "Job-related early retirement " (English → French) :

40. Suggests, on the basis of free collective bargaining or in consultation with works councils - in accordance with traditions of Member States - a cutback as soon as possible in companies resorting to early retirement, and calls on the Member States to promote the role of senior workers and encourage their employment; acknowledges, however, that for older workers who may no longer wish for a full-time occupation owing to the physical demands of their job, the possibilities of part-time work, flexible working hours, distance working or job-sharing may be explored, as an innovative form of gradual ...[+++]retirement limiting the stressful effects of retirement;

11. Invites the Commission to submit a proposal for an enlargement-related early retirement scheme which should come into force in 2005;

What means is the Commission intending to propose in order to encourage the Member States to revise their early-retirement schemes with a view to persuading more over-55s to stay in the job market (and thus make their valuable experience available to European society), without at the same time excluding young people from that market?

3. Underlines the need to make every effort to include areas such as social security, among others, so as to take account of atypical workers and the various forms of discrimination against and social exclusion of women (migrant women, women from ethnic minorities, women in rural areas or remote regions, single-parent families); also underlines the need to adopt policies to ensure that women have access to training throughout their lives and to the new information and communications technologies and to analyse the reasons for the small numbers of older women on the job market in comparison with men and take appropriate action so as to encourage workers to extend their working life, particularly by establishing working conditions which enco ...[+++]urage people to remain in employment, facilitate the resumption of employment and remove incentives for early retirement; calls on the Commission to analyse the consequences of certain policies relating to the family and their potentially adverse effects on women's employment and retirement pensions.

- promote active ageing, notably by fostering working conditions conducive to job retention - such as access to continuing training, recognising the special importance of health and safety at work, innovative and flexible forms of work organisation - and eliminating incentives for early exit from the labour market, notably by reforming early retirement schemes and ensuring that it pays to remain active in the labour market; and encouraging employers to employ older workers,

Age discrimination towards older people in employment is becoming increasingly relevant due to the demographic changes in Europe which are at the root of most of the recent age-related legislation such as the abolition of or increase in mandatory retirement ages, disincentives for early retirement and other measures to keep older workers in the labour market.