Making retirement redundant

Today the Mature Times has published my latest article which you can see currently on the home page at www.maturetimes.co.uk. Basically older people will need to resign when they want to leave work rather than "retire" when next year's changes to the default retirement age come into force. This will have both cultural implications and an impact on current employment practices, particularly performance management. See the article for more details.

The Mature Times also covers another story about Longleat and the fact that management are to retire all their over 65s before the new legislation comes into force, next October. There are likely to be other organisations doing the same thing IE clearing out their older worekrs while they can.

The new legislation can't come soon enough in terms of ensuring that everyone is treated equally based on their abilities, capabilities, experience and skills and not a stereotypical view of what someone is like at a particular age. Hopefully more and more employers will recognise the benefits of this approach and get into the spirit of the changes rather than just complying with the law.