Wednesday, March 24, 2010

work til you drop

And so we had Darling's budget which included a proposal for consultation on reform of employers’ right to make people retire at 65, which examines options including scrapping the default retirement age, raising it or giving employees stronger rights. This , of course , leading to keeping older workers in harness for longer. Already three million people will delay their retirement because of the economic climate or because their savings were wiped out.

Martyn Bogira, a director at Prudential , touting for business , said "It's one thing to want to continue to work, but quite another to be forced to as a result of not having saved enough money to be able to retire,"

1 comment:

aberfoyle said...

Negative thought the education of ca[ital.Everything has to feed the profit.

Sad that the capitalist thought has forgton about the techocracy that they exploit.