Italy raises public-sector pension age for women

Italy’s cabinet bowed to pressure from the European Commission in June 2010 by agreeing to increase the retirement age for women in the public sector, adding a modest but important structural element to the centre-right government’s controversial deficit-cutting package.

ESO: Background information: Italian cabinet prepares austerity package http://www.europeansources.info/record/italian-cabinet-prepares-austerity-package/

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