It is being reliably forecast that the working population in the future will have to remain in employment for longer – goodbye to the expectation of retiring in your sixties and spending your leisure years on pensioners’ cruises. Many, if not most, people will have to continue working until they’re 72, because of the way demographics are shaping up (more older people, smaller families, fewer babies).
As if to endorse this trend, the Church of England was this week expected to rule that clergy are to be permitted to be active in ministry over the age of 70 and beyond.
