Retirement age recommendation

The Commons committee on work and pensions has recommended that the 2006 regulation that permits employers to force people into retirement at 65 should be scrapped, in the light of the European Court of Justice judgment on the Heyday case (see Workplace Report, March and April 2009). The committee said the rule “contradicts the government’s wider social policy and labour market objectives to raise the average retirement age and allow people to continue to work and save for their retirement.” This is likely to end the default retirement age, as the government now plans to review the law in 2010.