Guthrie & Theron | Attorneys in the Overberg Region

Compulsory retirement: When is it age discrimination?

Age discrimination is an automatically unfair labour practice.  So if a dismissal is based on an employee reaching retirement age, the employer is going to have to prove that the employee has reached the employer’s “normal” or “agreed” retirement age. In practice it must convince the court of two things: That it does in fact […]