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This later life - 9

2002

 

 

This laterlife....

Myra Kendall, forced to retire from her job as an air hostess at the age of 55, helped collect a petition of 8,500 signatures protesting at the decision. She wanted to know why the 68-year-old company chairman  of BA, Lord Marshall, was able to stay in his job when she had to leave hers.  

Ageism rules. One in five people have experienced some form of discrimination at work, most commonly due to ageist attitudes, says Age Concern. Their Age Positive campaign found that older workers suffer prejudice by employers, with assumptions commonly made about resistance to change, lack of technological skills and an unwillingness to accept new training. However the young are not let off either.  Discrimination against younger workers includes the idea that they are unreliable, irresponsible, lack organisational skills and are more likely to go off sick.  

 

Dizzy Seales, from Shoreham in Sussex, aged 88 and owner of a wooden leg, was airborne for one hour and 15 minutes as he stood on the wing of a flying aircraft. He is, naturally,  the oldest person to have performed this feat, though apparently an 87-year-old woman did it before him.   

Underfunded and over here. State funding for pensions is lower in Britain than in any other country in Europe, and lower than in the US, according to the government’s chief actuary report. Italy is top of the pension-payment league, with a package that lets workers retire at 50 if they wish. France and Germany are next on the list. 

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