Don’t rush into raising retirement age, consult workers

THE government should not rush in deciding whether to raise the retirement age again. Any proposal to do so should be scrutinised and studied closely.

In the past 20 years, there have been three changes made to the retirement age limit in Malaysia, starting in 2001 with the retirement age for civil servants extended from 55 to 56 and it was later extended from 56 to 58 in 2008.