Mandatory Retirement
Intergenerational Justice and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6237156 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel V Laselva (York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-162 |
| Publication date | 1987-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423900049015 |
| OpenAlex | W1983507293 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
This study explores two conceptions of justice and their radically different implications for mandatory retirement. The author argues that the case against mandatory retirement rests on a conception of justice which ignores the fact that a society is composed of different generations. Yet the neglect of this seemingly trivial fact leads to serious problems of intergenerational justice; and the note considers both how these problems can be accommodated within a theory of liberal justice, and the implications of that theory for mandatory retirement. The note then considers which of these two conceptions of justice is embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It argues that to ignore considerations of intergenerational justice in mandatory retirement cases amounts to a denial of the equal protection and the equal benefit of the law guaranteed by the Charter
Charter · Denial · Economic Justice · Embodied cognition · Law and economics · Neglect · Political science · Sociology · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 1996 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |