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PRESS STATEMENT Better working conditions instead of higher retirement ages!

+++ IG Metall Social Affairs Director Hans-Jürgen Urban comments on the report and the call for a pension at age 70+ linked to life expectancy issued by Federal Minister of Economics Katherina Reiche’s “Scientific Advisory Council” +++

IG Metall, Mainforum, Gebäude, Fahnen
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6 October 2025 6 October 2025

“Germany is not Denmark. Comparisons between different social and solidarity-based systems are inevitably flawed. Given the working conditions here, employees must first be able to reach a higher retirement age. Under current working conditions, this is unrealistic for the majority. The end result will be pension cuts.

The Minister of Economic Affairs would be well advised to steer clear of half-baked social policy. We don’t need constant new demands for higher standard retirement ages, but rather working conditions that make it possible to work until the current standard retirement age in the first place. If the minister has proposals for work that is age-appropriate and supports healthy aging, she should put them forward.”

 

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Walther Schneeweiß, Pressesprecher der IG Metall

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