Fiji's military government has decreed that the country's retirement age is 55.
Island Business International reports that the regime has ordered any public servant who is over 55 and still working to retire by the end of the month.
An extraordinary gazette called Decree Number Six and dated the 14th April, reversed the country's official retirement age to 55 from 60.
Soon after the coup in 2006, Commodore Frank Bainimarama had tried to reduce the retirement age to 55.
Later court action backed the Commodore but that decision was stayed by the Court of Appeal.
However Decree Six has wiped the Court of Appeal decision.
The decree however leaves room for retirement age public servants to remain in work if their services are still required.
