A Supreme Court ruling yesterday will make it easier for older workers to pursue age discrimination claims, and will give companies pause before letting go of their older senior employees. The ruling puts the burden on employers to prove that a layoff based not on age but some other factor. According to the New York [...] [read full article…]
What kind of work will baby boomers choose to do when they leave their primary careers behind? The MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore Career Survey released today suggests a surprising number will opt for work that makes a meaningful contribution to society. The survey found that “a surprisingly large number of people between the ages of [...] [read full article…]
So you’re getting ready to retire, but think you’ll want to keep working in some fashion after you leave. Maybe you’ll downshift to a part time position with your former employer, or do some consulting. Congratulations on making such a smart move. Continuing to work means more income to supplement your retirement lifestyle, and it bolsters [...] [read full article…]
Q: I have eight more years to work until my retirement age (66). I plan on working as long as possible. What I want to know is, will I be able to still work full-time while collecting Social Security, or will I only be able to work so many hours? Although I still have a [...] [read full article…]
Ask someone over 50 what they want to do after retirement, and you may well get this answer: “Keep working!” Surveys suggest that more than 75 percent of the baby boom generation plans to keep working past traditional retirement age. But it’s not likely that many will keep laboring away in Corporate America. Most boomers who [...] [read full article…]
The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched [...] [read full article…]
Legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate last week aimed at making it easier for older Americans to stay in the workforce longer and encourage employers to recruit and retain older workers. The bill has bi-partisan sponsorship of Senators Gordon H. Smith (R-OR), Herb Kohl (D-WI), and Kent Conrad (D-ND). I’ll have more on this in [...] [read full article…]
Two of the country’s best-known life-planning authors will co-lead a workshop in Chicago aimed at helping people think through their second acts. Richard N. Bolles, author of the best-selling book, What Color Is Your Parachute? and Richard Leider, veteran author, speaker and pioneer in life-work planning, will lead the May 29 - 30 event. It’s [...] [read full article…]
Our friend Jeff Williams of Bizstarters is taking his act on the road, with a series of “Ultimate Boomer Business Start-Up Workshops” in New York, Chicago and Boston this June. “We’ve learned from working with hundreds of Boomer entrepreneurs that many just want to run their business part-time and so are looking for a quick, [...] [read full article…]
Ever feel like you’re on your own when it comes to planning for retirement? Over the last few decades, much of the responsibility-and risk-of on-the-job retirement investing has shifted to employees. Fewer workers have traditional defined benefit pensions. And while many employees still have defined contribution plans, such as matching 401(k) plans, they handle their own [...] [read full article…]
RetirementRevised.com is the companion website of Retire Smart, a column written by Mark Miller that appears in more than 30 newspapers each week. For millions of Baby Boomers, retirement is an opportunity for reinvention, rather than taking it easy. Mark is helping write the playbook for the new career and personal pursuits of a generation.
