Retirement

New and updated

• Half of people at state pension age plan to delay retirement

  Date:

  8 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  Half of people due to reach state pension age this year are planning to stay in employment rather than retiring, with many expecting to scale back on work.

• Retirement policy and procedure

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Form for an employee to inform his or her employer of a wish to retire

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Letter inviting an employee who has indicated his or her plan to retire to a meeting to discuss how the retirement will be managed

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Letter inviting an employee who has indicated his or her plan to retire to a meeting to discuss his or her progress towards retirement

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Letter inviting an employee who has indicated his or her plan to retire to a meeting shortly before retirement

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Indirect age discrimination: compulsory retirement of police officers was justified

  Date:

  30 March 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Court of Appeal has held that the decision to reduce officer head count "to the fullest extent" by forcibly retiring police officers with 30 years' service was justified.

• What procedure should an employer follow if it wants to retire an employee?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Age discrimination: An early retirement exercise by police forces did not give rise to unlawful indirect age discrimination

  Date:

  28 October 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Chief Constable of West Midlands Police and others v Harrod and others [2015] IRLR 790 EAT, the EAT held that the employment tribunal erred in holding that the indirect age discrimination that arose from the application of reg.A19 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 was unjustified.

• How can an employer know whether or not its retirement age can be objectively justified?

  Type:

  FAQs