"Not everyone in front of the class until 71st"
“Anyone who comes from the teacher training college now is only entitled to AOW after turning 71. But will you manage to be healthy in front of the classroom until then? In this busy sector, with this workload? ” Douwe Dirk van der Zweep, daily director of the AOb, it wonders.
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Van der Zweep thinks it is a shame that it was not possible to conclude a decent pension agreement with the cabinet. “But the gap between what we demand and what the cabinet wanted to offer was too big. And then it stops. ”
One of the points where the negotiations broke down was the state pension age. “Average life expectancy is increasing,” says Van der Zweep. “The rule now is that this increase is passed on one-on-one to the pensions. But if people get one year older on average, that doesn't mean they can retire a full year later. You must also be able to maintain your work in a healthy way until you retire. ”
Ultimately, there must be a good pension scheme for all employees: young and old, permanent and self-employed.
The second point where the negotiations stalled was the RVU fine: the Early Retirement Scheme. With this regulation, the cabinet wants to force older employees to continue working until they retire. “The scheme hinders the conclusion of good generation pacts,” says Van der Zweep. “In some cases, for example in shrinking regions, older teachers could retire a little earlier to prevent younger teachers from having to be fired. The RVU fine means that very difficult."
Actual interest
Furthermore, the parties did not agree on a good pension for self-employed persons, and there was disagreement about the actuarial interest that the pension funds should use. “We want pension funds in a different system to be allowed to maintain a higher actuarial interest rate,” says Van der Zweep. “At the moment, the funds are forced to consider themselves poor: they have to keep a lot of money in the bank to be able to meet their obligations in the future. While in fact they could do with less money. Because the returns on pension assets that they get on the market are much higher than the actuarial interest rate. ”
Actions
FNV has announced actions for a better pension system. The AOb stands behind this, as a FNV bond. Van der Zweep: “Ultimately there must be a good pension scheme for all employees: young and old, permanent and self-employed. We don't settle for less. ”
