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Millions of older people will be able to lengthen their working lives under proposals from the equalities watchdog to scrap the compulsory retirement age of 65.
It says that the current law discriminates against older people, and that extending the working lives of older people would pump £15 billion into Britain’s ailing economy.
The equalities and Human Rights Commission has promised to make reform of the retirement age the focus of its pre-election campaigning, intensifying pressure on all parties to adopt it as policy in their manifestos.
The EHRC proposals are backed by a survey into older workers’ aspirations. A quarter of men and two thirds of women aged over 50 say that they want to carry on working beyond the state pension age. Although demand for flexible work was high, the survey found that plenty of employees were unhappy at being offered only lower-level part-time work beyond 65. Twice as may want to be promoted as want to downshift.

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