When I’m 65. Retirement Guidelines
February 17, 2010 by admin
Filed under General, orchardlatest
As the law currently stands, an employee has no right to work beyond the age of 65 years if his employer has followed the correct notification procedures and no longer wishes him to continue working.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has proposed the abolition of the current default retirement age of 65.
The Government has brought forward its review of the retirement age of 65 from 2011 to 2010 and it appears likely that the Government will increase the age of retirement in the near future. There is no clear date of when this will be, although the closing date for submissions of evidence for the Government’s research into employers’ aged-based practices was 1 February 2010.
It has also been suggested that the right to request working flexibly should be extended to everyone. EHRC’s research showed that older workers would like to work more flexibly, both in terms of hours of work and location (for example, around 40% would like to stay in their current jobs, but with greater flexibility in hours or days worked).
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