What do we need to do about informing employees of their right to request to work on who are approaching their 65th birthday?
Organizations need to decide what their policy about retirement ages is going to be. Before the Regulations came into effect, nearly 6 out of 10 UK firms had no fixed retirement age for their employees. Many of the well-known ‘age friendly’ employers had already, or have subsequently, decided to scrap fixed retirement ages altogether – seeing it as part of a deliberate strategy to become an ‘employer of choice’ to help give them a competitive advantage. Others have introduced a later retirement age than the new National Default Retirement Age (NDRA) of 65 – and some may continue to try to maintain an earlier retirement age, although they will have to be able to objectively justify it as “a proportionate way of achieving a legitimate aim” if challenged.
