Preliminary communication
HARMONIZATION OF THE ACT ON RETIREMENT INSURANCE WITH EXTENDED DURATION WITH THE EU LEGISLATION
Marinko Đ. Učur
Abstract
According to the Stabilization and Accession Agreement between the Republic of Croatia and the European Union and its member states, the Republic of Croatia has taken on the commitment to ''develop co-operation on improving health and occupational safety and to bring it up to par with the level of protection currently implemented in the Union.'' It is a permanent process, affecting also the health protection and safety of workers covered currently by the Act on Retirement Insurance with Extended Duration. The state will follow the tripartite principle and engage in social dialogue with trade unions and employers associations. This complex matter demands expertise in projecting (formulating) new regulations and in their implementation and monitoring. Objectively better solutions are to be arrived at through the efforts of multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary teams and methods (economic, sociological, labour-legal, ergonomic, social-legal and others) governing health and life safety and occupational safety in the broadest sense. Work places with special work conditions and business activities with unfavourable effects on health, as special categories, shall not be eradicated from the Act by way of a decree. Furthermore, specific categories of additionally protected, even disabled persons (workers), must not be ignored. In view of the above, the Act governing retirement insurance with extended duration needs updating. The matter is under consideration in this paper.
Keywords
health protection; worker safety; retirement insurance with extended duration; requirements of a modern social state; insurance rights
Hrčak ID:
93807
URI
Publication date:
18.12.2012.
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