Removing the 65 retirement age is discriminatory

The UK default retirement age set at 65 is under attack. The UK Government has announced that it intends to bring forward the date of review of that age from the original planned review date of 2011 to 2010.

The general view is that the 65 retirement age will be either raised or scrapped.

In the writer's view, either outcome would amount to age discrimination. How can that be? To remove a barrier would open up choice for employees to work until they and no-one else decided was appropriate.

That is one view. The contrary view, which I hold, is that to allow staff to continue until they are good and ready to go deprives the younger element of society of the opportunity to obtain work.

That in iteself would amount to age discrimination.