“Ridiculous and unfair”: older workers react to the pressure of delaying retirement | Retirement age

AS French workers’ stage another public show of dissatisfaction By increasing the state retirement age by President Emmanuel Macron from 62 to 64 years, the International Monetary Fund has asked the governments to encourage the right, older workers to delay retirement.

His recommendation is that people of people Baby boomer The generation should stay at work longer to achieve public finances in the areas of tax pressure caused by an aging world population.

The IMF said: “The 1970s are the new 50s” and published data that pointed out that a person at the age of 70 in 2022 had the same cognitive function as the average 53-year-old in 2000.

The governments, the historically high public debts, could not afford to leave the growing number of older workers from the workforce while they were still healthy and able to work. Instead, the governments could encourage employees to delay their retirement, reduce the early retirement advantages and increase retirement age in order to align the increasingly precarious relationship between employees and pensioners.

Thousands of people from all over the world shared the guardian as they felt Such suggestions. Although some considered the idea of ​​the IMF to be good, an overwhelming majority expressed outrage and usually describes the concept that older people should retire later in order to facilitate fiscal pressure as “disgusting”, “ridiculous” and “unfair”.

“Seventy are not the new 50. This is propaganda,” said a 63-year-old NHS administrative worker from Dundee. “After working since the age of 18, retirement cannot come early enough for me. I find it stressful and long for a time when my days are my own. I’m tired.”

Many feared that workers would be hardest in often physically physically paid jobs if the pension posts have changed again.

“[It’s] People with lower socio -economic backgrounds who have to stay at work because they have no private pensions, and they are the demographic ones who tend to have worse health, ”said Deann from North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

“I think [those in] Manual jobs, ”said Robert Mcalone, a bracket and building contractor from Bournemouth, Dorset.

“I left the school at 4 p.m.. Before that, I worked in hotel kitchens at 14, 18 hours a week. I am 60, fit, drink or smoke as a mason building contractor and I find a fight every day. Fortunately, I have my own house and my own savings, but not enough to return up to 67 years. I have built a lot of houses, schools and hospitals.

“I’m trying to work until I am 70 years old,” said Anne, 66, night shift worker in a homeless hostel in Great Britain. “It is increasingly a challenge. I often sit at work due to the effort. It takes longer to relax from an 11-hour layer. I need two days to physically recover.

“Many friends also take care of their grandchildren so that their children can work because childcare either does not exist and/or is unaffected.”

“Older employees have already done their piece and paid out into the system,” said a 61-year-old woman who worked in Nottingham event management, a view that was shared by many with hundreds of people who complained that the taxes were high, while the public services deteriorated dramatically.

Samuel, an HGV driver from Cumbria, said: “Paying taxes for a lifetime and never having one of its best years is disgusting. The government has to reduce the pressure on public finance in any other way.

“The government asks us to pay a system for healthcare and pensions, and we are getting less and less.”

“We pay higher contributions than ever,” said Adam, an aircraft maintenance mechanic. “I paid in the system, I want to get back what I paid.”

Hundreds were of the opinion that the successive British governments simply missed public funds, and called for drastic changes in other areas to compensate for the books and to facilitate the pressure on public services.

The numerous people argued that the ministers dramatically restrict immigration, reduce the expenses for residential construction and migrants and the advantages of young people who were unemployed to reduce advantages before they asked for older people to do without part of their retirement.

The 68 -year -old Andrew from Northamptonshire, who retired at the age of 60, said that the government should “stop throwing taxpayers for foreign help and financing support for illegal immigrants and abolishing unaffordable pensions of the public service. First, meet our own older and homeless.”

Others suggested that the advantages should be reduced for the close record number of people below 65 who were economically inactive.

“Why should we work on it? [70]Do you take more for people who don’t work? “Asked Susan, a Hull factory worker. [to 70] But not ready to pay for people who “had not contributed anything”.

Others argued that older people who stay in paid for longer could lead to considerable other costs elsewhere – especially in social care and childcare, in which a large part of the burden on older family members who act as unpaid supervisors are shouldered.

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“Older employees … may have caring responsibility for older parents, older spouses or grandchildren,” said a 60-year-old primary school teacher from East Anglia.

“If they worked longer, the care needs of these groups would fall into state -financed bodies. In addition, many in this age group take on work in the volunteer sector and offer urgently needed support for charity organizations and local groups.”

Susan Chardin, a 71-year-old publisher and English teacher from Bayeux, France, belonged to many people who said that they had experienced the Agesmus on the labor market, a practice that they would stand in the way of many who would like to delay their retirement.

“Governments want [baby boomers] To stay at work, but companies discriminate against older workers, ”she said.

“Until the government is prescribed by the government, nothing will be done to enable this.

However, others agreed with the proposals of the IMF with all of my heart, and various people said they had worked until 70 a.m. and enjoyed it.

“I did that,” said Erwan Illian, 72, a retired cabinet manufacturer from Berkeley, California. “It was a financial necessity, but also a choice. I was born in France. At the age of 64, the right age in France, I think is ridiculous and selfish.

“I’m a game,” said Lewis, a 50-year-old senior rural real estate manager for the Department of Defense from Bath. “I would do that for myself, my family, for society. I don’t want to blew away when I am retired. Work and social contact stimulates and refreshes.

“If we do not work older, the system will not give enough tax – my son’s generation will be under enormous pressure.”

“I retired in 2010 after working in the heavy construction business and then started working voluntarily at big sporting events such as the 2012 Olympics,” said Malcolm Chevin, 74, from Walton-on-Thames in Surrey.

“I decided to go back to work at the age of 67 because I had to do a little more. I am now working in the Food Hall in John Lewis on Oxford Street [in London].

“I do not intend to stop the work, although I was diagnosed with cancer in 2022. I enjoy the camaraderie and actually take fishmen training.”

“People will likely push back against this idea because retirement is considered right,” said David, a city planner from the north of England. “With increasing cost of living, however, retirement looks like an unaffordable luxury for the future.”