Age Concern pushes for older workers' right to work - Age Concern

Its report Choose not lose the right to work – the case for scrapping mandatory retirement ages - outlines why it is beneficial for MRAs to be abolished in terms of the economy, women and businesses. Businesses which don’t have MRAs and which actively recruit over 50s claim up to 40% lower rates of absentism and a sixth of the rate of staff turnover, according to the report. Workers over 50 contribute a quarter of the country’s economic output and if the million extra older workers who could work did so, this could add £30 billion to the annual economic output. The arguments for individ...