Budget 2010: Govt could scrap compulsory retirement age

In what he termed as a "Budget for recovery", Darling said he was looking to improve rights for older workers and was looking into scrapping the compulsory retirement age. Hargreaves Lansdown head of pensions research Tom McPhail said the government was talking about scrapping compulsory retirement age, without actually confirming the outcome of the ongoing review on the subject. The government announced it would bring forward a review on investigating if a default retirement age was still relevant in today's society after the High Court ruled it was legal for employers to force worke...