Only employee can make early retirement call (Legal View)

Incentives are not discriminatory, though how they’re presented might be a problem

Although mandatory retirement was abolished in Ontario in 2006 — and is no longer in effect in most other jurisdictions in Canada — it is still permissible to use an appropriately formulated early retirement incentive to “encourage” the voluntary departure of an older worker.

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