Compulsory retirement

[Vipers]

OK guys, question, the ineveitable has caught up with me, reaching 65 young this Christmas, under current regulations/laws etc do you:-

1. Have to retirwe.
2. Can stay on at work past retirement date.

Hope there is a simple answer to this.

[GeraldSmith]

You can carry on working, your employer used to be able to give you six months notice and force you to retire but they can't do that any more.

[Vipers]

Thanks for that, I sort of thought that was the deal, hopefully stay until end of Feb.

Cheers.

[Bonefish Blues]

Let your employer know if it's only a month or two extra (although there's no obligation) - it'll go down well if you help them with their planning.

[Vipers]

Bonefish Blues said:

Let your employer know if it's only a month or two extra (although there's no obligation) - it'll go down well if you help them with their planning.

Thanks for that, already told them I would like go work through Feb next year.

[Jasandjules]

Unless they have a good reason for termination at 65 then they can't really do so anymore..

[Ozone]

We have been going through this in my department at work and i have been told that you need to give your employer 6 months notice if you intend not to retire otherwise they will put it in place that you will be, if they want to go strictly by the rules. It does depend on the employer, they can be flexible if they are happy for you to stay on.

[Vipers]

Thanks for that info as well, ta.

[edc]

There are some transition arrangements for default/compulsory retirement age but otherwise the default position is that there is no compulsory retirement age unless the business can objectively justify one. To retire is now little different from resigning and you only need give your appropriate notice.

The 6 month notice relates to procedures under the old arrangement.

[DSM2]

Ozone said:

We have been going through this in my department at work and i have been told that you need to give your employer 6 months notice if you intend not to retire otherwise they will put it in place that you will be, if they want to go strictly by the rules. It does depend on the employer, they can be flexible if they are happy for you to stay on.

Don't think this is true any more.

Until April this year it was sort of true, in that between 1 year and 6 months before you reached the normal retirement age your employer had to wrtie to you to tell you that you had the right to write to your employer and ask to stay on either temporarily or permanently, if you didn't want to retire. You had to do this at least 3 months before your retirement date.

Then the employer could decide whether you would retire or not and didn't have to justify the decision.

From next month, this is no longer so and an employer can't decide that you should retire at any age. The reason that April was significant is because anyone reaching the normal retirement age before the end of September had to be given notice by the 6th April.

[Bonefish Blues]

You are correct, it isn't. As previously mentioned, this was an interpretation by a specific Co. of the application of the previous Regs.

[Ozone]

DSM2 said:

Don't think this is true any more.

Until April this year it was sort of true, in that between 1 year and 6 months before you reached the normal retirement age your employer had to wrtie to you to tell you that you had the right to write to your employer and ask to stay on either temporarily or permanently, if you didn't want to retire. You had to do this at least 3 months before your retirement date.

Then the employer could decide whether you would retire or not and didn't have to justify the decision.

From next month, this is no longer so and an employer can't decide that you should retire at any age. The reason that April was significant is because anyone reaching the normal retirement age before the end of September had to be given notice by the 6th April.

OK, that's what happened, we have a retiree coming up at the end of this month so probably applied.