Compulsory retirement

Summary The Default Retirement Age was abolished in 2011. Since then, requiring a person to retire at a particular age is unlawful as direct...

Compulsory retirement age for academics

An appeal case has upheld two tribunal decisions which had reached opposite conclusions on the same university retirement policy. This was t...

Fixed retirement ages for health and safety, and maximum recruitment ages

Summary Compulsory retirement age Normally a compulsory retirement age is unlawful as direct age discrimination unless it can be justified b...