What is your opinion on this and if you can vote on it, would you be in favor or not?

__In a nutshell:__

>If you start working earlier, you should retire earlier – that’s the idea behind working life. In Switzerland, this is currently around 42 years on average. For example, a construction worker starts an apprenticeship at the age of 16. With a working life of 42 years, he would reach retirement age at 58. A doctor, on the other hand, starts work at the age of 26, after completing her studies. After 42 years of work, she would only retire at the age of 68. The retirement age would thus be linked to education.

https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/nach-erfolg-der-ahv-initiative-eine-lebensarbeitszeit-zur-sicherung-der-ahv

by BezugssystemCH1903

5 comments

  1. This actually makes a lot of sense to me and I wonder why it isn’t that way since the beginning.

  2. You have to have 44 years of contributions to receive the full AHV so it kind of already exists.

  4. The construction worker is already done and out, physically, in his fifties. A doctor can work way longer if she/he doesn’t suffer from a neuro-degenerative disease, since the job isn’t physically taxing as the construction job.

    Forty-two years in the “slave-mill” is already too much, but i wouldn’t mind should someone prefer it that way.

  5. How does it make lot of sense?

    When the doctor retires late, will they get older? Or will the construction worker that retires earlier also pass away earlier?

    Assuming that life expectancy is largely independent of your profession, why would it make sense to link the years you get to enjoy retirement to the number of years in education?

    Also, since most students are working besides their studies at least part-time, wouldn’t these years also already count as contributing towards AHV?

    What about not working fulltime? If I work 70% and study next to it, does the entire year not count and will I get to retire later because of it? I understand the emotion behind this idea BUT ultimately what it ends up with is punishing those that study longer for higher paying professions (thus also paying more AHV already).

Leave a Reply