AI Summary of Introductory Text
An Act has been introduced to enable employees to inform their employers that they do not consent to retire at the contractual retirement age. Upon receiving such notification, employers are prohibited from enforcing the contractual retirement age for employees who have not yet reached pensionable age, unless the rationale for retirement is objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim, with appropriate and necessary means employed to achieve that aim.
Additionally, the Act prohibits any form of penalisation against employees who notify their employers of their non-consent to retirement. This Act also includes amendments to the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and encompasses related provisions aimed at safeguarding employee rights in relation to retirement practices.
Introductory Text
Number 16 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.
[16th December, 2025]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: