Age discrimination - justification of compulsory retirement at 65

• Author:
• CMS Cameron McKenna

Two Employment Tribunals have handed down judgments reaching different conclusions on whether compulsory retirement at 65 amounts to discrimination on grounds of age.

There is an exception to unlawful discrimination in the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 for retirement at 65 or over but this applies only to ‘employees’ and not to partners or office-holders. Their retirement at a particular age must therefore be objectively justified in order to provide a defence to a ... (1060 more words)

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