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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Govt confirms end of enforced retirement  Solicitors providing an employment contract law service may see more work, as the government confirms that it is to end enforced retirement. Following a consultation process, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has said the Default Retirement Age (DRA) will be phased out this year. Businesses will be offered support to cope with the changes, but employment relations minister Edward Davey suggested that many will be able to adapt easily to the new legislation. "It is important to remember that about two-thirds of employers already operate without fixed retirement ages - and many of those with retirement ages already offer flexibility for workers to work longer," he said. Mr Davey explained that the move is overdue, saying that choosing when to stop working should be "a matter of choice rather than compulsion". The Trades Union Congress welcomed the decision, claiming that it will end the process of employers dismissing workers at 65 "on an arbitrary basis". Business leaders have been less enthusiastic, with the CBI recently calling for a delay on the implementation of the DRA scrapping. Posted by Gaby Hamerton 
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