retirement age

Growing numbers of people are postponing their retirement in the recession and working past state retirement age, according to Watson Wyatt.

Forced retirement at 65 can be justified under European law only if it is a "proportionate" means of achieving a legitimate employment policy, European judges have ruled.

A challenge to the right of employers to make people retire at 65 has been rejected by a senior legal adviser to the European Court of Justice.

Around 63% of UK workers are against the planned increases in the state retirement age.

A permanent Pensions Commission should be established to ensure the link between increasing longevity and a rising state pension age remains fair, claims the Actuarial Profession.

UK savers aim to take earlier retirement but expect less state support new research indicates.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has dropped a bombshell by hinting it intends to ‘sweep away' the retirement age.

Members of public service union, Unison have agreed to back strike action apposing a Government proposal to increase the workers' pension age from 60 to 65.

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has called for a mandatory retirement age to be set at 65 but with concessions allowing the individual employers to stipulate the end point of the employer-employee relationship.

At least three-quarters of men can now expect to live beyond 70 years old, suggests research by the Pensions Policy Institute.