Increase in the retirement age, if any, should be small and gradual

WHEN presenting the 13th Malaysia Plan (13MP) in the Dewan Rakyat on July 31, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the government would review the current mandatory retirement age of public servants, which is 60 years.

A few months earlier, Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform), had suggested that the government consider raising the retirement age to 65 as many retirees in both the public and private sectors are still active and