Japan keeps its mandatory retirement age at 60 while obliging employers to rehire until 65

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Some state constitutions impose a mandatory retirement age on judges The Age Discrimination in Employment Act bans a mandatory retirement age for most jobs A bona fide occupational qualification allows an age limit only where safety genuinely requires it Federal firefighters and law enforcement officers face mandatory retirement at 57 after twenty years Religious bodies can set their own retirement ages because the ADEA exempts churches Airline pilots must retire at 65 and a 2024 push to raise the limit to 67 did not pass Raising a mandatory retirement age shifts cost from employers onto the pension system and onto younger hires Tenured professors lost their exemption from mandatory retirement in 1994 Raising the contribution rate and raising the retirement age solve the same cost from opposite sides Some occupations win earlier retirement ages through hazardous-work lists rather than through general rules

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