Retirement: are you following the right procedures?

Employment Tribunals are clarifying the rules with regards to dismissing employees of 65 and over, following much confusion over which procedures employers should follow.

It had been thought that employees of 65 years of age and over could potentially claim against their employer for failing to follow one of the five correct procedures for fair dismissal. Potentially fair reasons for dismissal are gross misconduct, performance / capability, redundancy, legal reasons, and some other substant... (294 more words)

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