“The pension system is unfair and the unequal retirement age discriminates against men,” said Katarzyna Kotula, Minister of Equality (who calls herself “Minister”) in an interview with Wirtualna Polska. Is this an announcement that the retirement age will be equalized and increased?
In an interview with Wirtualna Polska, Katarzyna Kotula responded, among other things: to questions about what her job in the new government entails. As the portal’s journalist Joanna Bercal-Lorenc noted, the left-wing politician’s tasks “somewhat overlap with the powers of other ministries.”
My work will, to some extent, be based on the principle of looking into the hands of others and assessing whether the provisions of emerging legislation and regulations are not discriminatory. I will also encourage my colleagues to include specific provisions where changes need to be made or even caught up in areas that have been neglected over the past eight years.
– said the Minister of Equality.
Referring to the issue of partnerships, including homosexual partnerships, Kotula replied, among other things: to the question about the appearance of two same-sex couples in the neoTVP breakfast program.
The fact that PiS has decided to harass LGBT people without asking basic questions about how such couples live and how many of them there are can arouse emotions and cause surprise on the faces of some viewers, even if it should not be . When you talk to people with very conservative views, they often admit that their attitude towards this community only completely changed when they found out that someone they knew, for example from work, a neighbor, a hairdresser or a beautician, was LGBT used to be. . And if you are not talking about people but about ideology, you can hide behind this story and say that it is promotion. That’s why we need to talk about it based on specific people’s stories
– emphasized the Wp.pl interlocutor. Would the minister be surprised if someone told her that most people – both those with ‘strong conservative’ and ‘strong liberal’ or ‘strong left-wing views’ – actually don’t care who their hairdresser or beautician lives with, but when? For example, if she will decorate her beauty salon with rainbow flags, these will be ideological elements, whether the minister likes it or not.
“An unequal retirement age discriminates against men
During the conversation, Katarzyna Kotula paid a lot of attention to the discrimination against women. She regretted, among other things, that the issue of abortion had not been included in the coalition agreement. She also spoke about the situation of women in the labor market, including: B2B contracts.
I think we need to consider to what extent these contracts are the choice of the employees, and to what extent it is de facto the employers who ‘force’ them into them, because we hear about such situations. While in some industries these contracts are necessary or – for example in healthcare – it is not possible to resign from them, it is necessary to look at them from the perspective of the market and the future, for example of the pension system. Only later will it be possible to decide what to do, because it is easy to say “let’s ban it”, but that is not the point
– she assessed.
In the context of the pension system, a very interesting question was asked: will the retirement age for women and men be equalized in the near future?
The pension system is unfair and the unequal retirement age discriminates against men. However, on the one hand, there is inequality and discrimination based on age, and on the other hand, the pensions of women who live longer are on average 1,000 PLN lower, and sometimes even famine.
– the Minister points out and adds that the answer to this challenge is the left-wing proposal regarding the so-called widow’s pension.
It seems to me that a discussion about equalizing the retirement age is inevitable, but I will openly say that there are currently no such plans.
she assured.
However, we will analyze in which direction the reform should go so that these inequalities can be eliminated
– Katarzyna Kotula added.
It is worth emphasizing that in the case of the previous government of Donald Tusk, we also often heard that the retirement age would not be increased, and we can still remember clearly when these guarantees ended. Will this also be the case here, and will this time discrimination against men be used as an explanation, causing some of the allies to stand up and start clapping?
aja/Wp.pl
Source: wPolityce