Over-65s will be given new rights to redundancy and unfair dismissal payments

The Financial Times reported last week that unfair dismissal and redundancy rights might be handed to workers aged over 65. At the moment, employees' entitlement to redundancy pay and age-related unfair dismissal awards ends when the employee reaches 65.

This follows the announcement back in December 2004 that employers will be able to set a default retirement age of 65 under forthcoming age discrimination legislation, but that employees will have the 'right to request' to work longer.

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