2008
DOI: 10.7202/019539ar
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The HR Management Perspective on the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement in Ontario

Abstract: Effective as of December, 2006, an end to mandatory retirement was legislated in Ontario. Prior to this move, some employers and labour organizations were opposed to eliminating mandatory retirement and expressed concern about the negative impact such a move would have on business and on individual workers. This exploratory descriptive study examines HR managers’ (N = 415) perceptions of the impact of the elimination of mandatory retirement in Ontario. Compared with HR managers in organizations not practicing … Show more

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“…Van Sluys (, cited in Templer and Armstrong‐Stassen , 605) defines mandatory retirement as the practice that requires an employee to retire from a particular organization or employment contract upon reaching a certain age. The present study adopts this definition.…”
Section: Mandatory Retirement Age Policies: a Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Van Sluys (, cited in Templer and Armstrong‐Stassen , 605) defines mandatory retirement as the practice that requires an employee to retire from a particular organization or employment contract upon reaching a certain age. The present study adopts this definition.…”
Section: Mandatory Retirement Age Policies: a Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Opponents argue that: It can have the negative effect of creating an image of older workers as inept and unable to contribute to society (Hartman ). It is a human rights issue—People who are willing to work and are able to work should not be forced out of the workplace because of their age (Docstoc ). It might be a violation of constitutional rights (Munro ). Statistical evidence to justify an age limit for mandatory retirement is lacking (Docstoc ). The evidence that mandatory retirement reduces unemployment is weak (Templer and Armstrong‐Stassen ). …”
Section: Mandatory Retirement Age Policies: a Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Outcomes are necessarily mediated by workplace relations and no meaningful evaluation of the new regulations is possible without understanding how these play out at this level. Research to date has largely neglected the organisational context of individual decisions as arising from broader management and employment relations processes (useful exceptions are Fuertes et al, 2013;Templer and Armstrong-Stassen, 2008). Labour market analysis tends to focus on workers in the aggregate (cf.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%