OPTIMAL RETIREMENT AGE AND RELATED DATABASE FOR THE TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY WORKERS

In Slovenia the retirement age of drivers and other workers in logistics is being raised. However, many workers, especially drivers and workers in big warehouses are not able to work until they have reached the increased retirement age. This problem is decreasing social security of workers in logistics, increasing their anxiety regarding the future and influencing the quality and safety of logistic processes. The problem escalated in January 2017, when the new occupational pension scheme for transportation workers has entered into force. Unions are protesting to the new decreased contribution rate of employers, because no serious research has been done, how it will influence transportation workers’ social security in the environment of increasing retirement age of public pension scheme which is the complementary scheme to this professional pension scheme. There is high risk that the consequences of the lower contribution rate stipulated in the new occupational pension scheme will force them to work longer even when their functional capacities will decline to the level which does not allow for safe performances of their transportation related jobs. These exposure to risk of individual activities in a supply chain can influence losses in total chain. Disruptions and lower quality performances in one activity cell of a supply chain can have a ripple effect throughout an entire chain. To solve this problem, we should put in place supplementary occupational pension schemes, in which higher retirement age will not affect the reliability of logistic activities in the individual activity cell and therefore will not affect the total logistic network. This article is introducing a model how to determine economically acceptable contribution rate to the occupational pension scheme regarding exposure to risk of total chain, that is based on extended MRP Theory. The needed data which will support decissions on required parameters of the pension scheme are listed. The model can be used as a basis for negotiations between employers and unions in this suddenly escalated conflict to keep the transportation and other logistic activities at the same level of quality.