Questão 89200

• Banca: ESAF
• Órgão: MTE
• Ano: 2010
• Provas: ESAF - 2010 - MTE - Auditor Fiscal do Trabalho - Prova 1
• Disciplina: Inglês
• Assuntos: Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Companies in the rich world are confronted with a rapidly
ageing workforce. Nearly one in three American workers
will be over 50 by 2012, and America is a young country
compared with Japan and Germany. China is also ageing
rapidly, thanks to its one-child policy. This means that
companies will have to learn how to manage older workers
better.
Most companies are remarkably ill-prepared. There was a
fl icker of interest in the problem a few years ago but it was
snuffed out by the recession. The management literature
on older workers is a mere molehill compared with the
mountain devoted to recruiting and retaining the young.
Companies are still stuck with an antiquated model for
dealing with ageing, which assumes that people should
get pay rises and promotions on the basis of age. They
have dealt with the burdens of this model by periodically
"downsizing" older workers or encouraging them to take
early retirement. This has created a dual labour market for
older workers, of cosseted insiders on the one hand and
unemployed or retired outsiders on the other.
But this model cannot last. The number of young people,
particularly those with valuable science and engineering
skills, is shrinking. And governments are raising retirement
ages and making it more diffi cult for companies to shed
older workers, in a desperate attempt to cope with their
underfunded pension systems.
Feb 4th 2010 | From The Economist print edition [adapted]

The text suggests that the governments of industrialized countries are

• A. trying to stop companies dismissing older members of their workforce.
• B. refusing to employ younger workers because of their expensive pensions.
• C. cutting the retirement pensions of valuable workers on the basis of age.
• D. making desperate attempts to cope with an ineffi cient labour market.
• E. regretting their generosity to workers who have taken early retirement.

Gabarito: A

Comentários

• Resposta: A
  trying to stop desmissings raising retirement age. 
• Trecho que auxilia na resolução da questão:
  "But this model cannot last. The number of young people, particularly those with valuable science and engineering skills, is shrinking. And governments are raising retirement ages and making it more difficult for companies to shed older workers, in a desperate attempt to cope with their underfunded pension systems."
  Tradução: mas esse modelo não pode perdurar. O número de jovens, particularmente aqueles com habilidades em ciências e engenharia, está diminuindo ("encolhendo"). E os governos estão aumentando as idades para a aposentadoria e tornando mais difícil para as companhias demitirem os trabalhadores antigos, numa tentativa desesperada de lidar com os sistemas de pensão com receitas (fundos) insuficientes.
  Quanto às alternativas:
  a) trying to stop companies dismissing older members of their workforce. Tradução: tentando impedir que as companhias demitam os membros antigos de sua força de trabalho.
  b) refusing to employ younger workers because of their expensive pensions. Tradução: recusando-se a empregar jovens trabalhadores por causa de suas pensões caras.
  c) cutting the retirement pensions of valuable workers on the basis of age. Tradução: cortando as aposentadorias dos trabalhadores valiosos na base da idade.
  d) making desperate attempts to cope with an inefficient labour market. Tradução: fazendo tentativas desesperadas de lidar com um mercado de trabalho ineficiente.
  e) regretting their generosity to workers who have taken early retirement. Tradução: monstrando arrependimento quanto à "generosidade" conferida aos trabalhadores que se aposentaram cedo.
  ALTERNATIVA A.

• a-

  And governments are raising retirement ages and making it more diffi cult for companies to shed older workers, in a desperate attempt to cope with their underfunded pension systems.