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DTI to tackle workplace ageism

Radical government proposals that could entail millions more people working until they are 70 have been unveiled. The Government wants to consider stamping out workplace discrimination and end enforced retirement. At present, employers can determine the compulsory retirement age for staff. The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) perceives that enforced retirement adversely affects the… Read more »

Brown uses NHS to drive wedge between Labour and Tory policy

Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown will campaign to bring wayward Labour votes back into the fold by restating the Government’s commitment to the broad principles of universal free health care. Mr. Brown yesterday told the Transport and General Workers Union TGWU conference that the Tories were formulating radical plans to dismantle the post-Second World… Read more »