Special retirement scheme extended

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AUSTRIA - The new Austrian coalition government has extended the Hacklerregelung, a special retirement scheme for manual labourers, from 2008 to 2010 and will raise the retirement age for those eligible.

Sworn in this morning, the Austrian government now consists of a coalition formed by the new Social Democrat head of government, Alfred Gusenbauer, and his conservative predecessor, Wolfgang Schues...

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