Ending Mandatory Retirement: Reassessment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
<p>This paper critically reviews recent legislative changes on mandatory retirement in Canada. It argues that despite the global trend toward the abolition of mandatory retirement, which is also evident in Canada, one should not lose sight of the ultimate purpose – preventing age discrimination and promoting age equality in the labour market. Merely ending mandatory retirement cannot achieve this purpose. Furthermore, many exceptions still exist, allowing de facto mandatory retirement arrangements and stirring up controversy. The paper advocates a holistic approach to regulating the end of working life in a way that will best promote senior workers’ right to age equality, while balancing this right with the rights and interests of other workers, employers and society at large. Employing a theoretical framework for assessing unlawful cases of age discrimination – the Dignified Lives Approach to age discrimination – developed by the author elsewhere, this paper illustrates why mandatory retirement should generally be banned and outlines the limited circumstances and conditions in which mandatory retirement should be allowed. Finally, it suggests supplementing the abolition of mandatory retirement with various other measures to ensure that workers are treated with equal concern and respect in both work and retirement.</p>
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".