Government faces High Court challenge over age regulations

A retirement group, which is backed by the charity Age Concern, is taking the Government to court over a clauses in the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (2006) which it believes will allow employers to be able to force employees to retire at or after 65, and will enable employers to refuse to recruit anyone over the age of 65.

The Regulations, which come into force 1 October, will ban companies from having mandatory retirement ages below 65. Employees will have the right to request to ... (190 more words)

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