Re-employment helps workers ease into retirement, not meant to build up nest egg

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COMMENTARY: Re-employment helps workers ease into retirement, not meant to build up nest egg

Re-employment is a wake-up call and is, perhaps, one last reminder to make plans to retire. Still, one mustn't wait to be offered re-employment as it may never happen in some instances.THE first thing that hits me after reading the Tripartite Workgroup on Older Workers' proposals is this: I'm left out of it.

All the changes it recommends in the Strengthening Support for Older Workers report, which the government has accepted, only come into force after I am no longer...

 

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