German MPs raise retirement age
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German MPs vote to raise the retirement age to 67 from 65, to reduce the cost of an ageing population.
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The number of jobless in Germany rose in October, data released Wednesday showed, complicating the government&#39;s already tough task of trying to draft a budget that will respect European Union guidelines.
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Italy has more national holidays than many industrialised countries and most employees get a month&#39;s paid leave on top, but some parliamentarians are demanding more.
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Workers will not be forced to work until the age of 70 before receiving state pension benefits, the Labour government's new pensions minister said.
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The Labour government has published ambitious pension reform legislation to raise the official retirement age to 68 by 2046.
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Raising the retirement age to 68 will avoid shifting the tax burden onto the young, minister John Hutton will say.
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Members of Congress insist that retired players should play a bigger role in making it better.
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Unions consider strike calls over plans to raise public sector workers' pension age.
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The legal age of smoking in Scotland should be raised from 16 to 18, a team of experts will tell ministers.
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Germany's health ministry approves the sale of 80,000 state-owned apartments as Europe's largest economy tries to finance rising pension costs.
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TOKYO -- Retirement comes in January. That's when Katsunori Hamahara turns 65, when his government pension kicks in and when he will be able to afford a place to live.
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Maybe it's no longer a young person's game. The government, which has traditionally hired college graduates and mid-career professionals, signaled yesterday that it is interested in hiring mature workers -- those older Americans who are retired or face retirement in the private sector but want to...
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Airline pilots would be allowed to fly until they turn 65 instead of the current mandatory retirement age of 60 under new rules proposed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Representatives from German carmaker Volkswagen AG and a labor union said Friday they had agreed to increase working hours at plants in western Germany by more than four hours a week to 33 hours, without any increase in pay.
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Germany's finance minister presented a 2005 budget Tuesday that boosts government spending and foresees record interest payments on the national debt, but still aims to get the country back under European Union deficit limits.
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The German Parliament on Thursday overwhelming approved a one-year extension of the Bundeswehr&#39;s Afghanistan mandate. The decision comes a day after a grenade attack on a German camp in Kunduz injured five.
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TORONTO (CP) - The Ontario government took its first steps Wednesday towards eliminating mandatory retirement at age 65, but labour leaders expressed doubts about whether the move would benefit the province's workers.