He reached retirement age, then got a week to accept a very different job
A Singapore employer that retired a 63-year-old area manager must pay him more than $26,000, Tribunal Magistrate Joel Tan ruled on 13 July 2026.
The decision turned on two mistakes many employers make once a worker reaches retirement age: assuming the job simply ends, and assuming that any offer of re-employment is enough.
The employee had worked as an area manager and stayed on past the statutory retirement age of 63, which he reached in March 2025. Discussions about re-employment only began in June, after he raised the question himself. The company then offered to keep him on as a training executive on a six-month contract, cutting his gross monthly pay from about $6,400 to $4,000, roughly a 38 per cent reduction. It gave him a week to decide.
When the employee, then on medical leave, asked for a few more days, the company refused. "We regret to inform you that we are unable to extend this deadline further," it wrote. He rejected the offer and asked instead for an employment assistance payment, a sum the law provides when an employer cannot re-employ an eligible older worker. The next day the company terminated his employment with immediate effect, arguing that reaching retirement age let it end things without notice and that no assistance payment was due because it had offered re-employment.
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