However, with regard to institutions for occupational retirement provision, the Authority’s actions should be without prejudice to national social and labour law.

However, with regard to institutions for occupational retirement provision, the Authority’s actions should be without prejudice to national social and labour law.

33. Recognises the significant heterogeneity of pension schemes across the EU yet emphasises the importance for workers to be able to change jobs within or outside their Member State; stresses the need to guarantee that mobile workers are able to acquire and preserve occupational pension entitlements; endorses the approach advocated by the Commission to focus on safeguarding the acquisition and preservation of pensions entitlements, and calls on Member States to ensure that dormant pension rights of mobile workers are treated in line with those of active scheme members or those of retirees; notes the important role the Commission can play in removing obstacles to free movement, including those that hamper mobility; is of the opinion tha ...[+++]t, apart from language barriers and family considerations, mobility on the labour market is hampered by long vesting periods or unreasonable age restrictions, and calls on Member States to lower these; stresses that any action to promote mobility must be balanced by the cost-effective provision of supplementary pension schemes and must take into account the nature of national pension schemes;

Promote a lifecycle approach to work through: a renewed endeavour to build employment pathways for young people and reduce the youth unemployment; resolute action based inter alia on affirmative measures to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities for women and men in terms of access to employment, pay, promotion and working conditions; better reconciliation of work and private life, including the promotion of better sharing of family responsibilities between spouses and partners and provision of accessible and affordable modes o ...[+++]f public childcare and services providing a high level of educational quality, a high-quality public care service for elderly people and other dependants; modern pension and healthcare systems, ensuring their adequacy, financial sustainability and responsiveness to changing needs, so as to support participation in employment and longer working lives, including appropriate incentives to work and discourage early retirement; support for working conditions conducive to active ageing through an attractive supply of voluntary part-time work and opportunities for phased retirement (Integrated guideline No 17).

Adapt work to the different stages of people's lives through: a renewed endeavour to build employment pathways for young people and reduce the youth unemployment, providing young people with high quality and individually appropriate education and vocational training ; resolute action to combat workplace discrimination, eliminating gender gaps in employment, unemployment, pay and promotion, and facilitating employment for female victims of domestic violence; better reconciliation of work and private life, encouraging the equal sharing of family responsibilities, support for single-parent families, and recourse to flexible working models ...[+++] for both women and men, parental leave, and, in particular, the provision of accessible and affordable childcare facilities and care for other dependants in line with the targets set by the 2002 Barcelona European Council ; modern and better pension and healthcare systems, ensuring their adequacy, financial sustainability and responsiveness to changing needs, so as to support participation in employment and, on a voluntary basis, longer working lives, including appropriate incentives to work and discourage early retirement; support for working conditions conducive to active ageing, especially gradual and flexible retirement (Integrated guideline No 17).

Adapt work to the different stages of people’s lives through: a renewed endeavour to build employment pathways for young people and reduce the youth unemployment providing them with high quality and individually appropriate education and vocational training; resolute action to combat workplace discrimination, eliminating gender gaps in employment, unemployment, pay and promotion; facilitate employment for women victims of domestic violence; better reconciliation of work and private life, encouraging the equal sharing of family responsibilities, single-parent families, and recourse to flexible working models for both women and men, par ...[+++]ental leave, and, in particular, the provision of accessible and affordable childcare facilities and care for other dependants according to the targets set by the 2002 Barcelona Summit; modern and better pension and healthcare systems, ensuring their adequacy, financial sustainability and responsiveness to changing needs, so as to support participation in employment and, on a voluntary basis, longer working lives, including appropriate incentives to work and discourage early retirement; support for working conditions conducive to active ageing, especially gradual and flexible retirement (Integrated guideline No 17).