The age average in the public sector is generally higher than in the private one. So, according to this OECD report, to attract and to retain capacities in the public service could indeed represent a severe challenge in the years to come. To increase its attractiveness, the report favours the flexibility in employment rather than the increase of the public pensions that it considers as an expensive and insufficiently targeted approach. If Belgium still has progress to make in comparison with it’s neighbours, it should neither lose sight that the retirement of numerous civil servants also represents a tremendous opportunity to rationalize public employment.


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