Working rights for pensioners to be improved

12/01/2010

People over 65 who want to keep working to manage their debt, have been encouraged by comments from Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman.

Ms Harman told the Daily Mail that she intended to scrap the enforced retirement age of 65 in a continued bid to counter age discrimination.

Pensions expert Dr Ros Altmann, supported the Labour party member's views, saying that a change was long overdue.

Dr Altmann said: "Basically we need to encourage and facilitate people working longer.

"We are wasting so much of our precious national resource by forcing people to retire before they might be ready."

On the subject of age discrimination, she added: "Nobody needs to force people to stay on but equally if people want to, it shouldn't be right for an employer to just be able to get rid of them because of their age."

At the moment a worker can be forced to leave their job at the age of 65 without any redundancy pay.

Tags; Retirement Money Problems,

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