Your comment might apply to tipped employees working in high-quality restaurants. However, we cannot assume that people working in fast food restaurants or small restaurants will get tips of 20%. The female workers who alerted us to this problem face difficult working conditions. In most cases, these women have jobs with no security and they do not earn enough to raise their families. These are the workers who are being targeted, and I would like you to focus on this issue. I would now like to ask Ms. Brisebois a question.
Your remark surprised me a little. Thirty years ago, we talked about the leisure society. We no longer do so, because people are working more and more and they are working longer and longer. It is somewhat discouraging. If peopled used to plan to retire at 50, now they are undertaking a second career. You say we should be making things easy for older workers.
I remember that about 10 years ago in the United States, I believe it was at Disney World, 70-year-old people were working because their retirement income was inadequate. I am wondering whether your comment means that this is where we are heading. I find this a pathetic situation. Please reassure me, because I find this quite a sad story.
We have tried to build a society based on sharing and social justice, but if people can no longer retire with dignity, with an adequate income, I think we have failed.