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Title: Retirement age now 65
Post by Forum Admin on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 9:18am

This is taken from The Guardian:

BBC raises retirement age

by Chris Tryhorn
Friday March 3, 2006

The BBC is to raise its staff retirement age from 60 to 65, employees have been told.

Staff looking forward to a rest after they turn 60 will now be required to work on into their seventh decade.

The move, which comes into effect in October, is designed to bring the corporation in line with European Union legislation.

An EU directive coming into force later in the year will outlaw age discrimination in employment.

A BBC spokeswoman said the move would not affect staff pension arrangements.

The corporation's planned change runs in parallel with moves across the public sector to raise the retirement age to 65.

Civil servants still retire at 60 and some have even threatened strike action over plans to make them work until they are 65.

Under the current state pension arrangements, men retire at 65 and women at 60. But women will also have to work until 65 when rules change in a few years' time.