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Mandatory Retirement in Canada - PDF

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Running head: EMPLOYMENT LAWMandatory RetirementName of the student:Name of the university:Author note
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1EMPLOYMENT LAWTopic: Mandatory Retirement in Canada: Should Employers be able to Force OlderEmployees to Retire?Thesis statement:In Canada, mandatory retirement was a problem that shook the employment arenabefore 2010. According to certain senior counsel, once an employee reached 65 years, theemployer forced them to resign from the post. However, agitation has been made from all thestages of employment against the process of mandatory retirement of the older employeesand certain findings has been made in this report on the validity of the process of mandatoryretirement and rights of the employer to force the elder employees to resign from their post.Summary of the legal issues:According to the Human Rights code of Canada, no employees shall bediscriminated as against their age. The provision on mandatory retirement has beenprohibited by the Ontario Human Rights Code. According to the code, no employer shallforce an employee who has reached the age of 65 year to get resigned from the post withoutshowing any reasonable cause. It has also been stated that the employers are required to meetbonafide occupational requirement before terminating an older employee. An initiativeregarding the matter has been taken by the Canada Labour Code in the year 2012 where it hasbeen mentioned that if an elder employee can meet all the skills and aptitude requires for thejob, he/ she should not be getting terminated from their post. The statement has beensupported by the CBC News in their Articles named ‘Mandatory retirement fades in Canada’("Mandatory retirement fades in Canada", 2018).
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