AI Summary of Introductory Text
This Act permits employees to notify their employers of their non-consent to retirement at the contractual retirement age. Upon receipt of such notification, employers are prohibited from enforcing the contractual retirement age for employees who are below the pensionable age unless the justification for retirement is objectively and reasonably supported by a legitimate aim, and the means to achieve that aim are deemed appropriate and necessary.
Additionally, the Act prohibits any form of penalisation against employees resulting from their notification regarding retirement age. The provisions aim to amend the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and establish related measures to protect employee rights in the context of retirement policies.
Introductory Text
[No. 10 of 2025]
An Act to provide that an employee may notify his or her employer that he or she does not consent to retire at the contractual retirement age; to provide that an employer who receives such notification may not enforce the contractual retirement age where the employee is less than the pensionable age unless the retirement of the employee concerned is objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim and the means of achieving that aim are appropriate and necessary; to further provide for the prohibition of penalisation resulting from such notification; for those and other purposes to amend the Workplace Relations Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: