Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025
Public bill · Government · Presented
Allows employees whose contract says they must retire before the State pension age to tell their employer they do not agree to retire at that age. After that notice, the employer can only insist on retirement if it can give a written explanation and show the retirement is for a legitimate reason and is necessary and fair; workers are also protected from punishment for raising the issue. It also lets employees take complaints to the Workplace Relations Commission and gives them possible remedies, including compensation.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide that an employee may notify his or her employer that he or she does not consent to retire at the contractual retirement age; to provide that an employer who receives such notification may not enforce the contractual retirement age where the employee is less than the pensionable age unless the retirement of the employee concerned is objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim and the means of achieving that aim are appropriate and necessary; to further provide for the prohibition of penalisation resulting from such notification; for those and other purposes to amend the Workplace Relations Act 2015; and to provide for related matters.
Last updated 23 December 2025
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- Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages Seanad
- Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage Seanad
- Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages Dáil
- Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Committee Stage Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment
- Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Committee Stage Select Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment
- Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage Dáil