Older People Productive Later Into Life Than in Previous Generations As far as one policy implication, the authors say that slow and predictable changes in the retirement
age, the
age when one can start collecting
pensions, are
justified — though as recent events in France show, there will be backlash to this.
The Palacios decision follows another high - profile
age discrimination decision — a UK employment tribunal recently decided in Bloxham v Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (July 2007 Central London Employment Tribunal) that City law firm Freshfields could
justify its decision to re-organise
pension arrangements to the detriment of some older partners (see NLJ, 2 November 2007, pp 1526 — 27).