It has been several years since the U.K.’s largest law firms said they dropped their once-ubiquitous retirement thresholds, but the issue has not gone away.
Most of the changes came after the U.K. government scrapped the default retirement age in April 2011 following a campaign led by charity Age UK. Since then employers have faced legal action if they forced out employees once they hit 65, effectively prohibiting mandatory retirement policies.
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