Nadiya

[Svetlana]

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In an unprecedented move, chief executive Thaller has raised the minimum retirement across the federation by ten years through the use of an special ordinance from the Nadiyan Commission for Pensioners, Benefit Receivers, and the Handicapped. The decision was revealed by NCPBRH's commissioner Butusova Lidia, whose office released an official statement updating Nadiyans on the new requirements to qualify for specialized pensions such as the Handicapped Aids Assurance, the Widowed Assistance Aid, etc.

The pension reform wasn't received well by the general population with the Nadiyan General Confederation of Workers and the Federation of Unions for Prosperity, respectively Nadiya's first and second biggest trade unions, already calling for workers to march into the streets and demand the annulation of the ordinance since the reform wasn't approved of by Parliament.

"We were simply taken by surprise since nobody expected this administration to adopt such a drastic increase." Says Emilia Rosengarten, Secretary General of the NGCW, "We, [the workers unions], knew that the second thaller administration would be tight fiscally especially since the take over of the budget by the NCB's technocrats, but we didn't think that in their quest to achieve 'financial wiseness' they would attack our right to rest after years of hard work!"

On the other end of the spectrum, the business and financial world welcomed the reform with warm and open arms. The NCB's governor, Evelina Maximovna, congratulated the government in a RealFace post stating, "This reform was inevitable and I am glad to hear that this administration took a bold step and finally raised the retirement age in order to alleviate the burden of pensions on young people especially since the Confederation is expected to hit a demographic wall no matter what. Over at the NCB, we welcome this change with open arms as it helps us walk hand in hand toward achieving financial intelligence."

"Everyone is relieved to know that Nadiya has begun fixing its pensioner probably." Says Dudás Kevin, a stock exchange middleman in the RSE, "I mean, I'm all for welfare and all, but you can't expect young working people to keep holding the financial burden of pensions on their back forever. I know that Nadiya has a fertility rate of 3,4 child per woman, that rate is gonna last forever and we will need to face an aging population wether we like it or not."

Now the ball is in the administration's court, will C.E Thaller back down or face the wrath of the unions and her party with the sixth confederal elections scheduled for November of this year?

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Written by @NNN