Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Act 2025
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Interpretation | ||
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2. (1) In this Act— | ||
“Act of 2015” means the Workplace Relations Act 2015 ; | ||
“Commission” means the Workplace Relations Commission; | ||
“contract of employment” means— | ||
(a) a contract of service or apprenticeship, or | ||
(b) any other contract whereby an individual agrees with another person, who is carrying on the business of an employment agency within the meaning of the Employment Agency Act 1971 and is acting in the course of that business, to do or perform personally any work or service for a third person (whether or not the third person is a party to the contract), | ||
whether the contract is express or implied and, if express, whether it is oral or in writing; | ||
“contractual retirement age” means, in relation to a contract of employment, the age specified in the contract as the age at which an employee is obliged to retire from employment with an employer; | ||
“employee” means a person who has entered into or works under (or, where the employment has ceased, entered into or worked under) a contract of employment and references, in relation to an employer, to an employee, shall be construed as references to an employee employed by that employer; | ||
“employer” means, in relation to an employee, the person with whom the employee has entered into or for whom the employee works under (or, where the employment has ceased, entered into or worked under) a contract of employment subject to the qualification that the person who under a contract of employment referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of “contract of employment” is liable to pay the wages of the individual concerned in respect of the work or service concerned shall be deemed to be the individual’s employer and includes, where appropriate, the successor of the employer or an associated employer of the employer; | ||
“Minister” means the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment; | ||
“pensionable age” has the same meaning as it has in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 . | ||
(2) For the purposes of this Act, one employer shall be taken to be associated with another employer— | ||
(a) if one is a body corporate of which the other (whether directly or indirectly) has control, or | ||
(b) if both are bodies corporate of which a third person (whether directly or indirectly) has control. |