How many are now employed full time over age of 65 and has new age discrimination laws helped you?

Question

I am still employed full time on shiftwork (average 60 hrs per week) but I did experience what looked like an attempt to "constructively dismiss" me by my employers. BUT looks as if I have been able to thwart them because new laws that came in October 2005 now giving me option of appealing against "unfair dismissals" to a Tribunal, which I could not have done before. My co-workers would confirm I am doing my job just as energetically and responsibly as co-workers of half or less my age and am just as able to adapt to night shifts. as anybody else..But the new legislation still makes it legal for an employer to force somebody to retire at age of 65? Is it not right I should be protected so as to be able to carry on working into my seventies IF I WANT TO, rather than becoming a workshy layabout spongeing on younger UK taxpayers for the rest of my life, or should the younger pay higher taxes and work harder so that people like me can become bone idle and useless to mankind?

Answer 1

It does seem there are not too many who have been helped by the Age Discrimination llegislation , (which by the way came into effect in October 2006 not 2005), so what you report is extremely interesting and creditable. So long as you are not blocking jobs for younger applicants you are good news.

YES, You certainly should be protected from unfair dismissal like every other worker is, but if your employers were trying to get rid of you because you could not adapt to night work any more, because (say) you had been caught asleep at your workplace that could be a "fair cop" disciplinary offence, for which dismissal could be in order?

BUT under current UK laws, they could then be required to find you alternative "day work" if you complained you could not sleep in day. That may be why they wanted to get rid of you?

Otherwise you do sound like an employers'. dream in being so determined to work, you will work any hours they order you to, which most younger Brits are unwilling to do ? Brits generally do not like working nights nor unsocial hours so employers need people like Wamibo who put up with the known health hazards of working nights.

But I also believe people who do not want to go on working after 65 should not be compelled to work thereafter? But having said that, those Unions who threatened industrial action if members were not allowed to "become bone idle" as you so delicately put it at age of 60, and think their members should have inflation proof pensions paid for by the rest of the UK working population, including workers like yourself, make me sick, and the Blair government's caving in to them was a betrayal of British interests!

Answer 2

Everyone must be able to work as long as they want. The legislation is not being much protective of the workers. Here, in States, force someone into retirement is totally illegal, but employers still find the ways to do that. Usually, they call a worker into the office and say something like "In now days, the technology and the way things get advanced is way too different than it was 20 - 30 years ago. The education that you had received in your days is way too outdated now. If you want to remain a valuable employee to the company, you will have to go back to college and take 20 up-to-date classes related to your profession. We will pay your tuition." Of course, most people after 65 find it extremely difficult literally having to go back to college. They have no choice then, but to retire. I know many people who are in their 60s and who were forced to retire that exact way. For many reasons they found it impossible to do another 2-3 years of college in order to remain on the job. On the other hand, there are few people (they all in their 60s) in my accounting class that did come to college and started taking all these classes just to be able to keep their jobs. They don't like nor enjoy it, but they say they have no choice.

Answer 3

This is a law brought in because the government are too aware of the problems that will arise when everyone works till they drop as they have no money to pay pensions.Dont think it is gesture to help older people .

Answer 4

That relies upon on the rustic you're renting in. each and each u . s . has diverse guidelines. maximum likely you may contain any situations you opt for on your house belongings. yet another danger is to contain a clause for quiet hours after 9pm and that if the police officers are observed as for a noise criticism after 9pm, then the renters will be evicted - something to that result.

Answer 5

You got it, I'm also over 65 and work full time.