{"id":504061,"date":"2026-07-01T06:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504061\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:34:33","slug":"local-reaction-to-changes-in-retirement-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504061\/","title":{"rendered":"Local reaction to changes in retirement law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local manager for citizen&#8217;s information has welcomed the Employment Contractual Retirement Ages Act 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation came into effect yesterday, and will make a difference to those facing retirement age.<\/p>\n<p>Workers must notify their employer before their contracted retirement date if they do not want to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Employers who refuse the request must provide an objective and reasonable justification under the new legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Northern Sound, Cecelia explained how to approach it if you are in this situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local manager for citizen&#8217;s information has welcomed the Employment Contractual Retirement Ages Act 2025. The legislation came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-504061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}