From next year, the baby-boomers start to retire (60 being the minimum mandatory retirement age for now).

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But there is no mandatory retirement age for coroners, and only the Lord Chancellor's office can dismiss one.

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Now he feels certain he will have to work until he is 65, the mandatory retirement age for pilots.

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Five years ago Ian Rankin retired his Edinburgh detective John Rebus when the fictional character reached mandatory retirement age for Scottish police.

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Other countries are raising the mandatory retirement age for pilots.

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This should be enough to prod the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to scrap its arbitrary mandatory retirement age of 60 for commercial pilots.

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The main effect of the new law was not an increase in the numbers of people working beyond the age of 65 but a big rise in severance pay for people leaving at what until then had been the mandatory retirement age.

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Andrew Smith at the Department for Work and Pensions would like to sweep away the whole idea of a mandatory retirement age.

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