Mr. Pat Mellon:

When an employer can tell an employee, once he or she has clicked over the 365 days and turned 65, that he or she must retire, that is an element of control. We hear time and again about the issue of coercive control. We would contend that this is coercive control, in that people who are fully employed and on a reasonable income straightaway, at 65, have no say, have their whole life turned upside down and, as the Deputy said, have to go down to the dole office. We feel that is coercive control of people who are aged 65. There is no need in the current climate for people to retire at 65 or to have any mandatory retirement age.