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By politics.co.uk staff The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has called for the state retirement age to be scrapped as part of “radical change” helping older people keep working. Its proposals for “fundamental changes to employment policies” include extending the right to flexible working for all, improving training and development and overhauling employment recruitment… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Northern Ireland’s leaders will meet with Gordon Brown and Irish taoiseach Brian Cowen in Belfast later as the final attempts to save the province’s powersharing arrangement get underway. It follows last-ditch talks between Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson and Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, which began earlier today. Negotiations over the… Read more »