Forced retirement is a tricky issue for many people. Some of us cannot wait to retire, but for others who love working they cannot understand why simply reaching an age is a reason to leave their job. There is also the consideration of aging populations to be taken into account.
Professor Paul Ewart, a former head of atomic and laser physics at Oxford, has won an employment tribunal over a policy introduced in 2011 to stop staff at the institution working beyond 67.
The university has said its Employment-Justified Retirement Age (EJRA) policy – which has now been lifted to the age of 68 – encourages diversity and career progression for younger academics.
But the employment tribunal judge presiding over Professor Ewart’s case found that forcing academics to retire at this age was not a “proportionate” method for achieving EJRA’s aims.
A very interesting article well worth a read. So what do you think? Should older people be forced to retire?
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