Proposed flexible retirement options 'extremely restrictive'

Sacker & Partners partner Robin Simmons said the two options put forward in the department for work and pensions consultation on flexible retirement were both "extremely restrictive". The flexible retirement and pension provision consultation closed on March 10. It sets out alternative options for a further exemption to the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. The first option would permit schemes to stop accrual of further pensionable service and the provision of death in service benefits for members working under a "flexible retirement arrangement". The second, more limited, ...