On 6 March, the Irish cabinet approved an employment bill designed to prevent employers from setting a mandatory retirement age below 66, without the consent of employees. The aim is to enable those who wish to do so to continue working until the legal age at which they can draw their pension, and thus increase the employment rate among older people.
On 6 March, the government announced the adoption of a bill seeking to enable employees to remain in work until the statutory retirement age. Although this age is set at 66, a large number of companies currently specify a compulsory retirement age of 65 in their employment contracts. The text adopted by the government therefore stipulates that an employer will not be able to introduce a clause setting a compulsory retirement age lower than the statutory age without the employee’s agreement. “Th
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Nathalie Tran
Editor-in-Chief Mind HR