S.L. 452.37 Art. 15Retiring age.

In cases where the retiring age of a male employee is expected at the age of sixty years, such employee shall be given the opportunity by his employer to retain his employment beyond this age at least until the age of sixty-one years, provided that the employee in question shall still be allowed, if he so wishes, to retire at the age of sixty years.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This note is not part of the Order but it is intended to indicate its applicability.

The above provisions shall apply to all employees in any undertaking or part of an undertaking, the activities of which consist wholly or mainly in any one of the following -

(a) the extraction, preparation, processing, or manufacture of table salt, oils of any kind, fats, margarine and similar products, chemicals (including petroleum) or chemical products but excluding employees working in lime kilns;

(b) the manufacture of paper, packaging, or the manufacture of articles made wholly or mainly of paper, including paper bags and exercise books;

(c) the manufacture of cardboard or articles made wholly or mainly of cardboard including cardboard boxes and containers;

(d) the processing or manufacture of plastics or articles made wholly or mainly of plastics, including polythene bags, plastic baby pants, plastic aprons and other plastic garments, polythene wrapping and plastic insulation material, but excluding -

(i) luggage, brief cases, handbags, shopping bags and other bags of similar nature;

(ii) textiles made from plastic fibres;

(iii) imitation jewellery and neon signs.

''chemicals'' includes basic industrial chemicals, gases, fertilizers, natural or synthetic rubber, and petroleum but excludes gases for domestic use; ''chemical products'' includes matches, paints, varnishes, lacquers, candles, soaps, synthetic detergents, bitumen, bituminous emulsions and other articles made wholly or mainly of natural or synthetic rubber, but excludes textiles made from natural or man-made fibres, and the manufacture, repair or rebuilding and retreading of tyres; ''plastics'' means any material including sythetic resins that contains as an essential ingredient an organic substance of large molecular weight, is solid in its finished state and at some stage in its manufacture or in its processing into finished articles can be shaped by flow.