Toronto - 20 September, 2005 -

Before Canada's Association for the Fifty-Plus presented its awards for best practices in the employment of older employees, speaker after speaker spoke of widespread discrimination against older employees when it comes to hiring, training, promotion and retirement policies. Mandatory retirement is discriminatory, acknowledged Ontario's Labour Minister, Steve Peters, and the provincial government has introduced legislation to abolish it. However, the proposed legislation is not yet law. Home Instead Senior Care, which provides companionship and non-medical home care services, was recognized for actively recruiting and training older employees. More than 75 per cent of the firm's caregivers are 50 and older, many of them retired professionals.

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