How are employers communicating about the impact of the removal of the DRA (XpertHR Benchmarking subscription required) to employees?One in three organisations plans to introduce line manager training for communicating with employees (XpertHR Benchmarking subscription required) about retirement plans. Fewer than one in 25 have such training in place at present.
The public sector leads on communication about retirement (XpertHR Benchmarking subscription required). For example, when compared with the private sector, public sector organisations are nearly four times as likely to offer pre-retirement courses (XpertHR Benchmarking subscription required) for older employees.
The abolition of the default retirement age (DRA) is likely to have implications for the vast majority of employers (XpertHR Benchmarking subscription required). XpertHR's Charlotte Wolff writes (XpertHR subscription required):
The DRA and the associated statutory retirement procedure were repealed by the Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 on 6 April 2011. Compulsory retirement dismissals effected after that date may amount to direct age discrimination or unfair dismissal, unless the employer can prove that the use of a compulsory retirement age is objectively justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.Subscribers to XpertHR Benchmarking can drill down into the complete benchmarking data from the 2011 XpertHR Benchmarking survey on the impact of the abolition of the DRA. The survey is based on responses from 157 organisations with a combined workforce of 284,540 employees.
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