Group wants mandatory retirement rules 'axed' as Minister hints at need to extend retirement age

Update - 2.15pm: Age Action hit out after advisers called for a shift in cultural norms over when people should stop work but stopped short of demanding reform to working into older age.

Eamon Timmins, Age Action chief executive, said: "Every year older workers are forced out of their jobs and onto the dole because of mandatory retirement ages.