Ballet dancers for retirement at the age of 40? The results of the survey may surprise

In mid -March, the Senate decided to send a draft amendment to the Act on pensions from the Social Insurance Fund and the Act on bridging pensions to the Sejm. The project involves the introduction of a new privileged professional group to the pension system. It’s about ballet dancers.

Thanks to the new regulations, ballet dancers will be able to retire at the age of 40 (women) and 45 years (men). The condition will be to work at least 20 years in the profession.

Lowering the retirement age for ballet dancers will cause that they will not retire early, therefore the authors of the project also propose to exclude the profession of ballet dancer from the group of professions in which work is considered to be a work related to very hard physical effort. In accordance with applicable regulations, ballet dancers employed in artistic institutions are subject to general principles of acquiring retirement rights – women aged 60, and men aged 65.

The originators of the changes explain that the profession of a ballet dancer is a profession that cannot be exercised until the retirement rights in force on the current terms. They emphasize that the dancers are exposed to constant injuries and heavy training and frequent performances during performances even destroy their organisms. They are exposed, among others for significant overloads of the musculoskeletal system, muscles and joints, in particular the spine. The creators of the project also pay attention to the fact that many ballet dancers are at the age of 40 trouble not only in dance, but with moving at all.

The introduction of changes – as their originators indicate – will not be too expensive for the budget. Ballet dancers constitute a relatively small professional group (in 2023 it was 439 people).

Ballet dancers earlier for retirement? Every fourth Pole on “yes”

It turns out that many Poles approach such a proposal with understanding. According to the SW Research survey for “Wprost”, 27.2 percent He believes that ballet dancers should be able to retire at the age of 40. 42 percent respondents do not like this proposal, and just over 30 percent. respondents have no opinion on this matter.

The study shows that the idea is supported by every third woman (33.3 percent, slightly more, because 36.1 percent of the ladies expressed an objection), while among men this percentage is much lower – 20.2 percent. (49 percent of men are against).