Age discrimination: retirement notices which fail to specify the retirement date are invalid
The EAT has ruled that a statutory retirement notice must specify the date of retirement and cannot simply refer to other documents, such as an employee handbook, to ascertain the date. It will not be sufficient to refer to retirement in accordance with a handbook, even if the handbook provides that retirement occurs at the end of the week on which an employee turns 65.
However, a notice stating that retirement would take place "after" the employee's 65th birthday was interpreted as meaning on his 65th birthday and therefore was valid. (Howard v Campbell's Caravans, EAT)
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