Managing the Older Worker

It is a good moment for a book such as Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order to be published. The UK’s default retirement age will be phased out this year, while state pension ages rise across Europe. Everyone knows we can’t ignore population ageing any more. Yet faced with the fizzing fuse of the demographic time bomb, the voice of UK business, the CBI, can only plead for an extension of employers’ rights to force retirement.