Increasingly, ambitious staff are looking to change jobs more frequently, with a recent survey indicating that more than 40 per cent of the workforce plan to change jobs within the next year. Career advancement was cited as the most popular reason for moving on with the concept of a job for life no longer being considered attractive or viable. Perhaps surprisingly salary and flexible working arrangements were not the main factors serving to keep employees motivated, rather variety and the challenge of the role plus promotional and career advancement opportunities were considered of great import.
Question: Compulsory retirement age are soon to be abolished in the UK, allowing people to work beyond 65 if they so choose. This change has been made in response to the EU directive, which will outlaw age discrimination against older worker from next year. In anticipation of backlash from business directors some ministers suggested that they would have preferred to have longer to allow businesses to adjust to the change with an alternative of simply raising the retirement age to 70 being mooted. However others reacted by explaining that if it is already wrong to sack people on the grounds of gender race or religion then there could be no justification for delaying the prevention of age discrimination. After next year, firms will have to prove, beyond doubt, that older workers are incapable of doing their jobs if they want to pension them off.
Options:
A. true, B. false, C. uncertain
Answer: C