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Click to show the answer How have the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 affected retirement dismissals?

Click to show the answer Now that the age discrimination legislation is in force, can employers retain a mandatory retirement age?

Click to show the answer What effect has the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 had on retirement ages?

Click to show the answer Can an employer keep a normal retirement age of 65 under the age discrimination legislation?

Click to show the answer Can an employer continue to operate a normal retirement age below 65?

Click to show the answer Under the statutory procedures, what notice must an employer give when proposing to retire an employee?

Click to show the answer Do the new retirement procedures apply to workers who are not employees?

Click to show the answer Do employers retiring employees have to follow the statutory dismissal procedure as well as the new retirement procedure?

Click to show the answer What happens if an employer forgets to inform an employee of his or her intended retirement date within the appropriate timescale?

Click to show the answer What are the statutory requirements governing an employee's right to request to continue working beyond retirement?

Click to show the answer Is an employee attending a meeting to discuss a request not to retire entitled to be accompanied by a trade union representative?

Click to show the answer How should an employer deal with a request to continue working beyond retirement age?

Click to show the answer Must an employer give reasons for refusing a request to continue working beyond retirement age?

Click to show the answer Where an employer grants a request for an employee to work beyond retirement does it need to repeat the statutory retirement procedure at a later date?

Click to show the answer If an employer grants a request for an employee to work indefinitely beyond retirement age, is there anything to prevent it seeking to retire the employee at any subsequent time?

Click to show the answer If an employer has granted a request for an employee to work beyond retirement age, which procedure should it follow if the employee subsequently begins to underperform?

Click to show the answer Can an employee make more than one request to continue working beyond retirement in relation to an intended retirement date?

Click to show the answer How are employees protected from dismissal under the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006?

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