2024-05-08 14:23:26
The businessman assured that people who exceed the current retirement age are totally “willing to continue working.”
Businessman Juan Sutil proposed postpone the retirement age of men and women in the countryduring his participation in the CNN Chile program Zero Tolerance.
The former president of the Confederation of Production and Commerce (CPC) stated on the occasion that this should be at 67 years of age, in the case of men, and 62 in the case of womensince “they can perfectly continue working.”
Sutil addressed the topic when speaking with the panelists about the pension reform, when he referred to the possibility of “looking for an intelligent way to find solutions to longevity. That means postponing the retirement process a little more for men and women, delaying it, because that generates an immediate impact on future pensions.“.
“On the other hand, just as there is unemployment insurance, which works very well and in which all businessmen contribute 2.7%, there could eventually be longevity insurance that could allow current pensions, When calculated with a shorter horizon in terms of old age, they generate an upward impact“, said Sutil.
Sutil proposed postponing retirement for two years
“Calculating a person’s old age up to 85 or 87 years old is not the same as calculating it up to 100. And that generates very high impacts“said the businessman.
Asked about what age he would propose changing the retirement age, Juan Sutil responded that “In men it can perfectly be improved in two or three years, and in women perhaps also“.
Explaining his reasons, he said that “when you get older and see how it evolves from the point of view of youth into old age, Today, people who are 67, 68 or 70 years old are fully fit and may be perfectly willing to continue working.“.
In this regard, he stated that for many people who work with him, “It is almost a burden to have to retire at 65 years old. In fact, in the company, in some cases it is up to 70 years“.
“As countries advance, and Chile has advanced a lot in the last 40 years (…) It is a combination of age, longevity insurance, improving the PGU and advancing the solidarity pillar, as developed countries do.“.
On the occasion, Sutil said that although the country has a resource problem, the “management problem“.
Criticism of Boric’s sayings
In addition, the former president of the business community reiterated his criticism of President Gabriel Boric’s statements against the current leader of the CPC, Ricardo Mewes.
“It does not seem correct or appropriate for the President to describe a businessman or a family in the way he did. He repeatedly states one thing, and then he has this catchphrase karma that ruins what he wants to build.“He said about it.
He also questioned the Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel, because he said that “has extreme the proposals and that is not conducive to agreements“.
He appreciated, however, that the Secretary of State did “get the inflationary process back on track and control inflation, which is the result of the country’s institutions and having an Autonomous Central Bank that makes decisions“.