PHASING OUT THE DEFAULT RETIREMENT AGE
20 October 2010
The government published a consultation detailing plans to phase out the Default Retirement Age (DRA) from April next year. If proposals are agreed then the DRA will be abolished by October 2011, ending the forced retirement of thousands of employees.
It will still be possible though for individual employers to operate a compulsory retirement age, provided that they can objectively justify it.
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