The new labour and social affairs minister, Michaela Marksová-Tominová
of the Social Democrats, is planning to disallow payments into private
pension funds by 2016. The introduction of the so-called second pillar of
the pension system was a key feature of the previous centre-right
coalition
government’s efforts to reform the pension system. Ms
Marksová-Tominová
told reporters a team of coalition and opposition politicians along with
experts should start working on a new reform of the system. Around 84,000
people have joined the second pillar, sending part of their monthly social
insurance payments to private funds.