Ending Mandatory Retirement in Ontario - Background resources

As every knows by now, the Ontario government introduced Bill 211 this week that would end mandatory retirement at age 65.

The government has also prepared an FAQ on the topic.

Ontario would be joining Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec and Prince Edward Island that already treat mandatory retirement as a form of discrimination and have essentially abolished it, as have Nunavut, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.

For background information on the issue, here are a few resources:

• Retiring mandatory retirement (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
• Mandatory Retirement in Canada (Department of Human Resources and Skills Development)
• Legislative framework: Mandatory Retirement
• CARP takes action to end mandatory retirement (Canadian Association of Retired Persons)
• Buzz Hargrove on the issue (Global Action on Aging)
  Ending mandatory retirement puts all workers at risk (Canadian Union of Public Employees)
• Mandatory retirement: An oxymoron? (Mercer HR Consulting)
  Mandatory Retirement Revisited (Watson Wyatt)
• Banning Mandatory Retirement: Throwing Out Baby With the Bathwater (C.D. Howe Institute)
• Retire Mandatory Retirement (Institute of Reseach on Public Policy)
• Challenges of an Aging Workforce (Social Development Canada)
• 2001 Census - Age and sex profile (Statistics Canada)