Setback in fight against forced retirement

Article reports on the Opinion of the Advocate General in ECJ Case C-388/07 announced on the 23 September 2008. Employers may be spared from a morass of costly age discrimination litigation following the judgment on the legality of the United Kingdom's compulsory retirement rules.

ECJ: Documents associated with ECJ C-388/07 http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en&newform=newform&Submit=Submit&alljur=alljur&jurcdj=jurcdj&jurtpi=jurtpi&jurtfp=jurtfp&docop=docop&alldocnorec=alldocnorec&docnoj=docnoj&docnoor=docnoor&typeord=ALLTYP&docnodecision=docnodecision&allcommjo=allcommjo&affint=affint&affclose=affclose&numaff=&ddatefs=23&mdatefs=09&ydatefs=2008&ddatefe=23&mdatefe=09&ydatefe=2008&nomusuel=&domaine=&mots=&resmax=100

Age Concern: Press Release, 23.9.08: Our comment on the legal challenge to mandatory retirement ages http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/mandatoryretirement.asp

TUC: Press Release, 23.9.08: Legal advice on default retirement ages is 'hugely disappointing' for employees, says TUC http://www.tuc.org.uk/equality/tuc-15381-f0.cfm

IoD: Press Release, 3.7.08: Business leaders already see the benefit of over 65s, says IoD http://press.iod.com/newsdetails.aspx?ref=338&m=2&mi=62&ms=

BBC News, 25.9.09: UK retirement age challenge fails http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8274328.stm

Age Concern, 25.9.09: Forced retirement is lawful - but only because of Government climb-down http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/forced-retirement-release-250909.asp

CBI: Press Release, 25.9.09: Default retirement age decision a victory for common sense says CBI http://www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/press.nsf/0363c1f07c6ca12a8025671c00381cc7/d43817565533c3668025763c00521ffb?OpenDocument

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