Forced retirement used as cheap alternative to redundancy, claim charities
Around 100,000 people were forced to retire last year, as employers are using the tactic to make cuts to their workforce, age campaigners have claimed.Charities Age Concern and Help the Aged said the use of mandatory retirement ages had "soared" during the recession and was much higher than in 2006, when the default retirement age of 65 was formalised.
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