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Retirement
— question for short debate [13 January 2009] | | Author(s) | Sally Greengross |
| Corporate Author | House of Lords |
| Journal title | Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) House of Lords Official Report, 14 January 2009 |
| Pages | HL Deb 13 January 2009, cols 1179-1194 |
| Source | Download from website (20/4/09): http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/... |
| Keywords | Retirement age ; Retirement policy ; Employment ; Ageism ; Employment of older people. |
| Annotation | Question for short debate tabled by Baroness Greengross: "to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to reform default retirement ages" as reported in Lords Hansard. Baroness Greengross introduced the debate, by stating that "the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 implemented a European Directive which outlawed age discrimination in employment and adult education. However, the Regulations also introduced a national default retirement age as an exception to the general principle of non-discrimination on the grounds of age. This means that it is lawful for employers to operate a mandatory retirement age of 65, in effect getting rid of people automatically just because they are deemed too old to do a job." Other contributors to the debate who had already passed or were about to reach age 65 also expressed misgivings on the default retirement age, as well as on issues such as the declining value of annuities which fund retirement. Lord Carter of Barnes, a Parliamentary Under Secretary, concluded the debate with a commitment to review the default retirement age in 2011. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090420503 E |
| Classmark | G5A: G5: WJ: B:TOB: GC |
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