Retirement

New and updated

• Retirement policy and procedure

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to highlight the employment tribunal decision in Pitcher v University of Oxford on having an employer-justified retirement age.

• Retirement contract clause for employees subject to an employer justified retirement age

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to highlight the employment tribunal decision in Pitcher v University of Oxford on having an employer-justified retirement age.

• Age discrimination: Oxford University justifies compulsory retirement age for academics

  Date:

  6 June 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Pitcher v Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and another, an employment tribunal held that Oxford University's "employer-justified retirement age" for academics is a proportionate means of achieving its legitimate aims.

• Form for an employee to inform their 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 their 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 their plan to retire to a meeting to discuss their 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 their 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.