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Employers Forum on Age welcomes Cabinet Office’s plans to remove the mandatory retirement age at Whitehall
Following the govenrment's decision to remove the mandatory retirement age across the civil service,  Catharine Pusey, director of the Employers Forum on Age, said:“We welcome the civil service’s decision...We firmly believe that it is inevitable that employers will eventually have to follow suit and the default retirement age will be removed altogether.”



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