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Proposal to cut retirement age to 50 misses the point

Golfers at work. Retirement should be about quality of life not job creation. [XN Iraki]

A bill proposed by a young lawmaker seeking to lower the retirement age of civil servants from 60 years to 50 ostensibly to create jobs makes political but not economic sense.

To the layman, this is good news as the jobless will finally have a chance to get a public service job that is permanent and pensionable.

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