Workers call for mandatory retirement age to be abolished

OLDER workers have called for the mandatory retirement age to be lifted following the publication of research into the needs of older people.

Age Action Ireland, which worked on the two-year study, said the “impact of compulsory retirement has on people cannot be underestimated”.

Companies in the public and private sector are losing some of their most valuable staff because of the age 65 embargo, according to the organisation’s chief executive Robin Webster.