There is no legal retirement age, and employers can no longer force their employees to retire at a particular age. You can keep working past your State Pension age.You can usually work for as long as you want to. The original rules allowed employers to retire employees at a default retirement age of 65 or over. However, this provision was repealed in April 2011. Under the proposals, those aged between 18 and the SPA would be automatically enrolled into a workplace pension scheme if they earned above £10,000 per year. The earliest you can get your State Pension is when you reach your State Pension age. We operate a flexible retirement policy for members of the LGPS and TPS scheme, i.e. In order to retire, you must file an application for retirement with the Middlesex County Retirement System. Paragraph 9 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 is removed.