EnactedStage in the legislative process — click for what it means10/2025Official bill number / year
Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025
- Sponsor
- Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Introduced
- 1 Apr 2025
- Last updated
- 23 Dec 2025
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Employees with contractual retirement ages below state pension age can notify employers in writing (3-12 months before retirement) that they do not consent to retire.
- Employers cannot enforce contractual retirement unless they provide written justification showing it serves a legitimate aim and the means are appropriate and necessary.
- Employees can claim compensation up to €40,000 or 104 weeks' pay at the Workplace Relations Commission if employers breach the Act or penalize them for exercising these rights.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage34th Dáil1 Apr 2025
- Second Stage34th Dáil8 Apr 2025
- Committee Stage34th Dáil8 Apr 2025
- Report Stage34th Dáil2 Jul 2025
- Fifth Stage34th Dáil5 Nov 2025
- Committee Stage27th Seanad25 Nov 2025
- Second Stage27th Seanad10 Dec 2025
- Report Stage27th Seanad10 Dec 2025
- Fifth Stage27th Seanad10 Dec 2025
- Enacted16 Dec 2025
Debates
Related bills
- Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024Cream List
- Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2021Second Stage
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023Enacted
- Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024Enacted
- Protection of Employees (Employers' Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2025Enacted
- Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2021Second Stage