Academics questioned what the forced retirement of their positions will be for over 75 years of age in the public sector, ensuring that “It is a policy with which they want to send us to the cemetery.”
This, by a clause contained in Law 21,724 on the public sector readjustment, in force since January 2025 and applicable from 2027, but that will not touch legislators (deputies, senators) or ministers.
The article that is questioned today emanated from a protocol of agreement promoted by the National Group of Fiscal Employees (ANEF), the Unitary Central of Workers (CUT) and the Government.
The change got into a miscellaneous law and went almost unnoticed.
“Anti Viejos de Chile”
On Sunday the professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, José Rodríguez Elizondo, wrote a letter to the director of the newspaper El Mercurio.
In the short text, the academic expressed a culture “anti -old from Chile”.
With 88 years of age, Rodríguez would be one of the people who would be forced to the forced retirement for having 75 years or more, referring to the decree that incorporates Law 21.724 on readjustment of the public sector that will begin to govern on January 1, 2027.
“I am already passed in several minutes. (…) The ‘age’ extermination of that law is anachronistic. Decoding with all due respect, I say that Just as there are young and lazy young people, there are also intelligent and active old men ”he said in the letter he wrote for the morning.
The proposal seeks to deepen the so -called retirement incentive, modifying related standards.
For example, it will allow affections to receive compensation equivalent to the total remuneration for each year of service in the public sector institution where they exercised, with a maximum of six.
The author of the letter, Professor Rodríguez Elizondo, also spoke with the express program Bio Bio de la Radio.
Currently, he serves in teaching and research and is in charge of seven assistants.
“Our work today is to reproduce what we know and transmit them to those who will happen to us, but this is a ray that leaves us in half”he said.
“Age” in the law does not govern ministers and legislators
This law excludes the aforementioned “age” to legislators (deputies and senators) and ministers.
The reason for this is what different actors question.
“Couple law is not hard and as they do the law, they are excluded from it”, The renowned Chilean astronomer commented, José Mazareferring to senators like José Miguel Insulza, Francisco Huenchumilla and Jorge Soriathat they would be forced to leave their positions if the norm touched them.
The justification would be that by not being governed by the administrative statute, and when chosen by popular mandate, legislators are out of the controversial norm.
Maza, National Prize for Exact Sciences of Chile, also spoke with the radio from his desk, where he is writing a new book at 77 years.
The academic spoke of the “Culture of obsolescence” that exists in Chile, ensuring that it is taken for granted than at older age, lower productivity and efficiency, and “that is not always the case.”
“It is a policy with which they want to send us the cemetery,” sentenced.
He added: “(…) If you are enjoying what you do, I don’t see a reason (to retire), because I can’t imagine television all the time. They will start giving a stimulus to go to the cemetery,” he said.
https://media.biobiochile.cl/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/221-cu-75-maza.mp3They are in total 2.206 People who in December were counted with more than 75 years and who would have to stop being public officials.
Institutions such as the 16 state universities have 360 officials and academics that exceed that age.
The rector of the University of Chile, Rosa devés, whose first period will end next year, in 2027 he will be 77 years old.
Finally, Eduardo Toro, executive director of Connecta Major UC, said that it is a law that Ignore that the population in Chile ages more and more.
“It is paradoxical,” he said, that statistics reflect a country “that ages rapidly and that, in parallel, he is legislating against that population,” he said.
https://media.biobiochile.cl/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/213-cu-75-uc.mp3In accordance with the last conjunctural bulletin of vital statistics, published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), there were a total of 12,827 births in January 2025, marking a 9.8% drop compared to January 2024.
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