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NP/CP say tribunal to revisit Air Canada retirement age

2017-09-18 09:38 ET - In the News

The National Post reports in its Saturday edition that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will be revisiting the issue of whether Air Canada was wrong to force some pilots to retire at age 60. A Canadian Press dispatch to the Post says that the decision publicly released on Friday says the tribunal will hold another hearing to determine whether the airline had the right to force 45 pilots to retire at an age it deemed to be the industry standard. The decision says the case originally had 97 complainants, but 52 of them will not have their retirement age scrutinized by the tribunal. Two cases with different complainants, but similar arguments, were ruled upon by the tribunal, reviewed in Federal Court, then ultimately dismissed by the Federal Court of Appeal. The tribunal says that the 52 pilots whose retirement dates were covered by the previous cases will not be included in the new hearing. It will, however, hear arguments from the remaining 45 whose retirement dates fall outside of the timeline covered by the other cases. In 2011 the then Conservative government passed a law forbidding federally regulated companies such as Air Canada to enforce a mandatory retirement age on its employees.

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