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Article: Older workers just as likely to be effective
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- May 9, 1999
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EMPLOYERS who don't firm-up performance management appraisal risk
being accused of victimising older workers, says an employment
lawyer.
"The onus is on the employer to justify a dismissal," said
Charles
Chauvel of Wellington law firm Rudd, Watts and Stone.
"The only way to terminate the employment of any staff member,
young or old, is to prove the decision was based on performance
management systems which are age, colour and gender blind."
Mandatory retirement was outlawed in February.
Most well-advised employers saw the change happening five years
ago and had upskilled management in performance monitoring.
But Chauvel said employers who remained unaware of recent
legislative changes could ...