Workers in the metal processing and mining industry who lose their jobs due to the shutdown of production due to the company's economic problems could regain easier conditions for retirement, because the SNP is in the parliamentary procedure through deputies Bogdan Božović submitted amendments to the Act on Pension and Disability Insurance (Act on PIO).
According to this proposal, there would be the possibility that workers from these industries could retire with 25 years of service or at least 15 years spent in workplaces, for which service is counted with increased duration. Norms that made it easier to retire were previously used when employees of KAP, Željezara, Bauxite Mine, Metalac remained due to the closure of the company or production.
According to Article 197m of the Law on PIO, workers whose employment in metal processing or mining has ended due to the suspension of production caused by the shutdown or closure of production capacities due to economic and technological problems, for pension requires 30 years of service or at least 20 effectively spent in workplaces, in which seniority is counted with increased duration.
Božović's proposal, which he submitted a few days ago on behalf of SNP and Civis, would shorten those limits by five years. In the explanation of the initiative, it is pointed out that 80 insured persons could use the right to pension under these conditions by the end of next year. In addition, it is pointed out that the amendments to Article 197m were made in order to create more favorable conditions for the retirement of workers, and that additional money in the budget of the PIO Fund is necessary for the implementation of the proposal.
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In Božović's proposal, in addition to changes to the existing one, the introduction of an additional article - 197n.
"With the exception of Article 17 of this law, an insured whose employment in the sector of the metal processing and mining industry has ended due to the procedure for the introduction, duration and termination of bankruptcy, the suspension of production resulting from the shutdown or closure of production capacities due to economic and technological problems in business, or whose employment terminated due to the completion of work in the process of conversation of closed, i.e. extinguished production capacities of primary aluminum production, as well as the insured whose employment relationship ended due to the collective dismissal of employees due to the cessation of the need to work for the employer, or for a company from these sectors, which in the last 24 month before the entry into force of this law, registered a change in the main activity, acquires the right to a pension if he has completed 25 years of insurance experience or at least 15 years effectively spent in a workplace where insurance experience is calculated with increased duration", the proposal of the new article states.
In the explanation of the proposal, Božović states that some categories of employees in these industries could not exercise their right to a pension by applying the previous solutions, and that this act will now comprehensively regulate the category of those whose employment has ended, as well as the conditions that must be met as would retire under more favorable conditions.
In addition to Božović, amendments to the Law on PIO were recently submitted to the Parliamentary procedure by the parliamentary group of the Citizens' Movement URA, to which they requested the return of the age limit as a condition for retirement.
The Constitutional Court's earlier decision to repeal Article 17, paragraph 1, of the PIO Law, which allowed women to retire at 64 and men at 66 if they have 15 years of service, entered into force on November 3. Now, the only requirement for a pension for all citizens is a full 40 years of insurance experience with a minimum of 61 years of age.
With the new proposal, the URA requests the amendment of Article 17 and the re-introduction of paragraph 1, which stipulates that the condition for retirement is acquired at the age of 64 and 15 years of service for both sexes.
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