{"id":602,"date":"2008-09-29T07:21:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T06:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=602"},"modified":"2009-07-30T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T08:45:45","slug":"it-is-possible-to-have-a-national-retirement-if-it-is-justified-reference-under-art-234","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"It is possible to have a national retirement, if it is justified. Reference under Art 234"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-medium wp-image-1099\" style=\"width:300px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/D162968-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Elderly\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\r\n\t<div>The Elderly<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\u201cAge Concern\u201d took the UK to the European Court to challenge to the UK\u2019s retirement age of 65.  The Advocate General (AG) has concluded that national legislation can lay down a retirement age, provided it is objectively and reasonably justified.<\/p>\n<p>The avoidance of an adverse impact on pensions and other work related benefits, were capable of being legitimate aims, but the ruling covered only general principles and so this issue has a long way to run.<\/p>\n<p>The AG\u2019s Opinion is not binding and the Judges may not follow it when they give their definitive ruling before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elderly \u201cAge Concern\u201d took the UK to the European Court to challenge to the UK\u2019s retirement age of 65. The Advocate General (AG) has concluded that national legislation can lay down a retirement age, provided it is objectively and reasonably justified. The avoidance of an adverse impact on pensions and other work related benefits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}