Jennifer Cashman has more than 20 years’ specialist experience advising a wide range of employers across a number of sectors. Recognised as a Leading Individual in Irish Employment Law in the 2023 edition of The Legal 500 Europe and is also recommended as a Leading Lawyer (Band 1) in Chambers Europe. Recognised thought-leader on various employment law and HR issues, in particular retirement ages and age discrimination. Clients praise Jennifer for her “practical, business-focused advice” and say “she gives "straight answers to straight questions… clearly very experienced and her delivery is fantastic - always clear and to the point."
Jennifer Cashman, Practice Group Leader of RDJ's Employment Team answers a few questions relating to retirement issues, arising from her stellar performance at this year’s Annual Review of Employment Law.
1. Retirement - where an employer historically has not had a retirement age in contracts for office-based employment, what should be done with employees in their late 60's who are not showing any sign of retiring? We’ve had no retirees up to now. Do they have to be paid off?
If there is no mandatory retirement age in the employment, then there is no legal obligation on an employee to retire, unless the employer is concerned about their capacity to do the job, in which case there would have to
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