Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Act 2025

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Number 16 of 2025


EMPLOYMENT (CONTRACTUAL RETIREMENT AGES) ACT 2025


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Interpretation

3. Application

4. Expenses

PART 2

Contractual Retirement Age

5. Notification to employer concerning contractual retirement age

PART 3

Workplace Relations

6. Decision under section 41 or 44 of Act of 2015

7. Amendment of Act of 2015

PART 4

Penalisation and Offences

8. Protection of employees from penalisation

9. Parallel claims

10. Offences


Acts Referred to

Employment Agency Act 1971 (No. 27)

Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2021

Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 (No. 4)

National Minimum Wage Act 2000 (No. 5)

Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict., c.93)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 (No. 5)

Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2015

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 (No. 8)

Workplace Relations Act 2015 (No. 16)

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Number 16 of 2025


EMPLOYMENT (CONTRACTUAL RETIREMENT AGES) ACT 2025


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.

[16th December, 2025]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: