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Consensus-Building Needed for Retirement Policy
Active Consensus-Building Needed for Retirement Savings Policy
The challenge for the Savings Forum meeting tomorrow is to identify a process which will achieve a consensus on retirement savings policy, Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today.
Politicians, employers and trade unions meet in Wellington at the Saving New Zealand Forum, being held to find a way to increase private savings.
“The status quo will not achieve the development of the second-tier employment-based saving schemes which we need,” Ross Wilson said.
“Working people are often struggling to pay personal debts, mortgages and student loans, and don’t feel they can afford to save for their retirement,” he said.
The CTU supported law changes which would reduce prospectus requirements and allow tax on employer contributions to retirement savings to be at the marginal tax rate.
“There needs to be a requirement for
deductions to be made for retirement savings when employees
ask for it,” Ross Wilson said. “And employer contributions
will be needed for any significant boost to employment-based
retirement
savings.”
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Te Kauae Kaimahi
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings together over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions. We are the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
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