Get rid of older employees before April 2010

The default retirement age (DRA) will be consigned to history from October 2011.

Employers will no longer be able to require people to stop working at 65, purely because of their age.

Employers should think of having a much older retirement age – 70 or 75.

Employers would no longer be able to issue compulsory retirement notifications under the DRA procedure from 6 April 2011.

Between 6 April and 1 October this year only people who were notified before the April cut-off date can be compulsory retired.

From 1 October 2011 employers will only be able to operate a compulsory retirement age where they can objectively justify it as a ‘proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim’.

The solution. Dismiss older employees before April 2010, or you could have until they are 75 !

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