Ms Mary Murphy:

We are looking for a wholesale abolition, so expanding on this part is getting into the technicalities, but imagine a world where an employer is not allowed to just engage the provision on a mandatory retirement age of 65 in an employee’s contract. The onus should be on that employer to bring the matter to the employee and ask whether he or she is okay with what it says in the contract. If the employee does not want to retire, the employer should not engage the provision or should review it. The process should start with the employer, not the employee. Some people do not know this provision is in their contracts and are taken aback when they are mandatorily retired because they had no warning.