BPFA slams anti discrimination law

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BELGIUM - The existing law on anti discrimination is ill-suited to pension funds and should be revised to provide extra clarification, according to the Belgian Association of Pension Funds (BPFA).

Hugo Clemeur, secretary general of the BPFA, said the law was inappropriate because issues of ethnic discrimination such as religion or skin colour were irrelevant to pensions. “In pensions, we ...

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