Age UK welcomes right to stay in permanent placements past 65

The news that employees will no longer be forced to leave permanent placements when they reach the age of 65 has been welcomed by one elderly people's charity.

Age UK claims that everybody wins from the decision, which was outlined in the coalition government's plans for its administration and is now being pursued by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

Charity director Michelle Mitchell says: "People over 65 will have full employment rights for the first time. The economy will benefit from older workers' precious skills and experience and their increased buying power."

However, some protections were already in place for people in permanent placements, as the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills notes.

Among them was the entitlement to request to be allowed to stay on past 65, as well as a ban on employers retiring staff at an earlier age, unless they were able to demonstrate an objective reason for doing so.

Updated: 30 July 2010.
Categories: market-and-industry-news, permanent-placement.