Campaigns & issues

Every day older people face age discrimination in access to health services‚ social care‚ financial products‚ benefits and insurance‚ and can be forced to retire at 65.

Forcing people to retire on their 65th birthday is age discrimination. We're calling on the Government to scrap the default retirement age.
We believe that employers should never be allowed to use someone's age as a reason for taking away their livelihood.

The Government is reviewing their policy this year‚ and we are calling for them to allow older workers to decide when they should work and when they should retire.

Get involved - it only takes a moment

If you too think that the default retirement age of 65 is unfair‚ join our campaign:

• Send an email to the Department of Business‚ Innovation and Skills‚ and let them know that you think forced retirement is age discrimination.
• Tell your friends to send an email too: the more people who support our campaign‚ the more chances we will have to push for changes to the law.

Follow the links below to find out more about our campaign to challenge the Default Retirement Age:

• Forced Retirement - Questions and Answers
  General information about our challenge to the Default Retirement Age.

Just Equal Treatment: campaigning for age equality

The Equality Bill presents an historic opportunity to ban age discrimination. We need MPs to strengthen and support the Bill through Parliament. We want at least 100 people in every constituency to call on their MP for Just Equal Treatment.

Email your MP