Pension policy ‘discriminates against manual workers’

Recent research which suggests that male manual workers are likely to die younger than professional workers makes a case for manual workers being able to retire earlier, according to construction union Ucatt.

The research from the Office for National Statistics found that men in routine and manual occupations are more than twice as likely to face an early death than those who are in managerial or professional jobs. In 2001, a worker in a routine or manual occupation was twice as likely as hi... (180 more words)

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