Retirement Age For Teachers Challenged In Court. A Nairobi based resident has filed a lawsuit to contest the present required retirement age of sixty years old for employees and sixty-five years old for people with disabilities.
The obligatory retirement age in the public and private sectors is illegal, according to the local Charles Chege Chege, and the court should proclaim this.
According to Chege’s argument, the right to work should be purposefully based on having the maximum positive effect possible rather than being narrowly interpreted to indicate constraints by retirement age.
Chege goes on to say that the Federation of Kenya Employers has taken a lot of cues from the public sector, which requires its employees to retire at age 60, or 65 for those with disabilities, if they have no valid cause to do so.
Retirement Age For Teachers Challenged In Court
According to the resident, this kind of retirement policy based solely on age is discriminatory and violates human dignity articles 27(4) and 28.
In his papers, he also states that the retirement policy violates both article 57(a)’s restrictions on full participation in societal affairs and article 41(1), which guarantees the right to fair labor practices.
There has been a contentious discussion lately in response to the lawmakers’ plan to lower the retirement age from 60 to 55 years.