High Court Upholds UK Retirement Age
In the long running saga that readers of these pages will be familiar with, the High Court has upheld the UK’s retirement age of 65.
Measures of this nature are held to be discriminatory unless they are “justified by legitimate social policy objectives such as those related to employment policy, the labour market or vocational training”.
The High Court has found that the policy was “a proportionate means of achieving legitimate policy aim”. However, the High Court judge also stated that given the Government’s proposed review of the default retirement age in 2010, he did not see how the default retirement age could remain at 65.
The Government is expected to increase the default retirement age to at least 68 before the end of next year.
