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Mandatory Retirement
Summary: Mandatory retirement is a form of age discrimination, as it forces a person to retire upon reaching a certain age. Mandatory retirement is illegal in many states. However the real challenge will be the reality of an aging workforce and insufficient young people to fill the vacancies.
Mandatory retirement is perhaps a necessary evil; as older employees are forced out of the work force, it creates space for new, younger employees. Mandatory retirement is a form of age discrimination, it forces a person to retire because they are a certain age; it does not take into account if that person wants to retire. It also does not take into account the financial standing of the individual, or if they are physically or mentally still capable of doing the job.
Although mandatory retirement is not largely popular, it still has an effect on many older workers and how they plan for retirement. "Mandatory retirement involves less than 1 percent of the work force and so opens up only a small fraction of the total jobs", because mandatory retirement effects such a small population, "Nor is forced retirement needed to create vacancies; most older workers retire voluntarily, and...
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