Mandatory retirement Posts

How old is too old to drive a school bus?

March 23, 2010

Originally published in the Gazette on March 17th 2010. To go to The Gazette website, please click here. When an ...

Getting Rid of Mandatory Retirement is Just the First Step – Action is needed to prevent age discrimination in the workplace

February 12, 2010

There is growing recognition for the need to attract and retain older workers but effective strategies are only just ...

Mandatory Retirement Feb 2010 Update

February 12, 2010

Would you believe that a 27 word clause in the Canadian Human Rights Act actually allows employers to force older ...

Getting Rid of Mandatory Retirement is Just the First Step – Action is needed to prevent age discrimination in the workplace

February 12, 2010

There is growing recognition for the need to attract and retain older workers but effective strategies are only just ...

School Bus Drivers Parked at 65?

September 28, 2009

A provincial law put into effect this year says people aged 65 can't be forced to retire, but some B.C. school boards ...

Liberals respond to CARP’s call to end Mandatory Retirement

September 11, 2009

Mandatory retirement violates the Charter, concluded the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in its recent decision ... but ...

Pilots win challenge of forced retirement

August 30, 2009

Mandatory retirement for federally regulated employees is on the verge of retirement itself, after the Canadian Human ...

Landmark Human Rights Tribunal Decision Eliminates Mandatory Retirement in Federally Regulated Industries

August 28, 2009

In the landmark case of Vilven and Kelly v. Air Canada Pilot's Association, the Human Rights Tribunal has found that ...

Open Letter to the Prime Minister: End Mandatory Retirement

August 28, 2009

On November 8th 2008, Susan Eng, CARP VP of Advocacy wrote to Prime Minister Harper urging him to repeal Section ...

Time to drop arbitrary age to retire judges

August 25, 2009

Lawyers who challenged the age qualification of most deputy Federal Court justices may have thrown a monkey wrench into ...