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.

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.

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