“Growth brake”: Heil demands that companies over 60 employees rethink
Created: 12/18/2022, 4:04 p.m
By: Franziska Schwarz
Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) © Chris Emil Janssen / Imago
Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil calls for more age-appropriate jobs - the reason is the shortage of skilled workers.
A current survey among Germans, however, indicates other plans.
Berlin – Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) has called on German companies to employ older workers.
"The shortage of skilled workers threatens to slow down growth," Heil told
Bild am Sonntag (BamS)
.
"The fact that many companies no longer hire people over 60 is an attitude that we can no longer afford."
It is important to provide age-appropriate jobs in companies.
"This is the only way to ensure that the work can really be done by the time you retire."
Heil again rejected an increase in the retirement age.
“It is not the statutory retirement age that has to increase, but the actual one.
Experienced workers must not be sidelined.”
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Retirement survey: A majority wants to leave their job as early as possible
According to a survey, on the other hand, citizens want to retire as early as possible.
According to a representative Insa survey for the
BamS
with 1001 respondents, 62 percent want to take retirement at 63 or even earlier.
Only eight percent would like to work until the age of 67 or beyond.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) had previously called for an increase in the proportion of those who can really work until retirement age.
There is also "potential for improvement" in the proportion of women in the labor market.
But all-day offers in crèches, day-care centers and schools would have to be expanded.
(AFP/dpa/frs)