Retirement Age
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My new company has a Retirement section in their personnel policy manual that I have never heard of before. It states:
"Normal Retirement age for company is 70 years. Should the employee wish to continue employment with us beyond the normal retirement age, the employee shall annually submit a request in writing two months prior to the employee's birthdate. Depending on the employee's personal health and work performance, and if we consider the employee's services essential, upon approval of Management, an employee may continue employment with us."
Does anybody else have something similar to this? Are we asking for an age discrimination case? Thanks for your help.
"Normal Retirement age for company is 70 years. Should the employee wish to continue employment with us beyond the normal retirement age, the employee shall annually submit a request in writing two months prior to the employee's birthdate. Depending on the employee's personal health and work performance, and if we consider the employee's services essential, upon approval of Management, an employee may continue employment with us."
Does anybody else have something similar to this? Are we asking for an age discrimination case? Thanks for your help.
Comments
Rip that page out of your policy manual.
James Sokolowski
HRhero.com
What's to say any age group might have poor health, work performance, etc.
Mandatory retirement is very narrowly defined by the law as has been addressed by previous posters.
My policy states that we recognize the age of 65 as qualified for retirement and that in order for an employee to retire from our company he/she must have been employed with the company a minimum of 5 years.
However, we do not require this person to quit, or reapply for his/her job once they reach those eligibility requirements. We just request that if they do plan to retire once they are eligible to do so, that they provide us with at least a 4 week notice so that we have plenty of time to recruit, hire and train their replacement.
As others have stated, you need to immediately remove that policy. If it is something that the uppers want in the book, revise it and have each employee sign off stating that he/she has received the new policy.
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