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What is the maximum age a person can work in Scotland?
I know most people retire between the ages of 55-65. However if your over 65 and still want to work even if its just as sales person or such can you do so in Scotland?
In the run-up to the forthcoming General Election, Age Concern and Help the Aged in Scotland is challenging all political parties to commit to scrapping forced retirement legislation. The call comes as new research by the Charity shows the use of mandatory retirement ages soared during the recession, with over 9,000 people across Scotland forced to retire on or after turning 65. Meanwhile the countdown to forced retirement is now on for over 22,000 more Scots workers in their 60s[i].
The issue tops the bill of key manifesto challenges launched today by Age Concern and Help the Aged in Scotland, which include calls for the re-linking of the basic state pension to earnings by 2012 and introducing an automatic system to pay older people their benefit entitlements.
The new survey reveals for the first time the full scale of the impact forced retirement has had on the older workforce since the Default Retirement Age (DRA) was introduced in 2006. The findings show that the number of people aged 65-plus forced to retire increased massively last year to more than 100,000 across Britain. The figure is four times higher than the number the charity feared would be hit when the law was introduced.
The figures suggest that employers have used forced retirement as a cheap and easy alternative to redundancy during the recession. Forced retirement is part of the everyday lives of people in their 60s, with one in four people aged 60 to 70 (24%) knowing a friend or colleague who has been made to retire at or after 65.
Many more people in their 60s face the prospect of forced retirement in the near future. Across Britain half a million 60-plus older workers (530,000) work for employers who use the Default Retirement Age and a quarter of a million workers aged 60 to 64 (250,000) say they believe it is likely or certain that they will be forced to retire. ~~
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