The Polish Parliament will vote on a reform allowing ballet dancers to claim the state pension from the age of 40, two decades less than the retirement age for most workers.
The proposal, which would effectively restore a provision of the Communist era, aims to reflect the extreme physical assessment that the profession weighs on the dancers.
Ballet dancers must generally retire at the start of the forties, then recycle in other professions, and certain ballet companies use 40 as a cut -off age.
A study of retired dancers in the United Kingdom revealed that 36% had undergone musculoskeletal injuries at the end of his career, leaving the scene at an average age of 29 years, and 91% had felt bone or joint pain.
In Poland, ballet dancers are currently falling in
