Retirement Issues

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An ageing population = An older workforce

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How to Deal with Retirement Issues?• Age discrimination• DRA – impact of removal• Retirement & alternatives• Dealing with workplace

issues

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Age DiscriminationPre October 2006

Happy Retirement

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Age DiscriminationAge isn’t an Issue

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RetirementThe way we were

65 today

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Keep on trucking

RetirementThe way we were

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When I’m 65

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• Inter-generational fairness• Dignity

Legitimacy

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(nobody knows!)

And the winner is…..

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Is forced retirement lawful?

• legitimate aims

• examples

Forced Retirement

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Is forced retirement lawful?

• proportionality

• unfair dismissal

Forced Retirement

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“ An attempt to level the playing field by subjecting to scrutiny requirements that look neutral on their face but in reality work to the comparative disadvantage of people with a particular protected characteristic ”

Forced retirement & indirect discrimination

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Forced retirement & indirect discrimination

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Should my business have a retirement age?

Retirement Age

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Workplace discussions/Appraisals

Managing without a retirement age

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“ Please release Me… Let me Go”The R Word

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Performance Management–whatever the age

Dealing with Poor performance

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Peter piper picked a peck of product!

Dealing with Poor performance

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’dem bones, ’dem bones, ’dem old dry bones

Disability Discrimination & Age

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How to deal with disability issues

Disability Discrimination

& Age

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Age does not equal physical ability to do job

Health& Safety

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Preventing cliff edge retirementAlternatives to retirement

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Flexible workingAlternatives to retirement

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Flexible working is not for my business?

Fear of flexible

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Ways of workingAlternatives to retirement

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We hold onto our workforce well into their later years and retrain them. This allows us to keep

and use their skills, and it gives us a tremendous bank of knowledge and

experience.

Stanair Industrial Door Services

Alternatives to retirement

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Settlement Agreements

Another solution?

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Case Study 1Rita retiring from Radiant?

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• Does the retirement clause in the contract mean that Rita can be forcibly retired at 65?

• Can Radiant Beauty Salons successfully defend any age discrimination claim?

Case Study 1

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Case Study 2: Myth or Fact

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Q&A

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