Different standards for the elderly from the other ages are adopted for the termination of employment contract in Korean workplaces. Labor laws stipulate a mandatory retirement age to protect employees. However, many employees are laid off in spite of legal regulations. External factors should be considered for deciding the existence of age discrimination at work. Especially employees' recognition of age equality at workplaces and the people's general understanding of age discrimination should be reflected to execute anti-discrimination policy. This paper presents the people's intention to remain at work that is higher than the current mandatory retirement age, 60 based on a survey. According to the comparison between the American survey and the Korean one, workers' intention to work as long as possible looks universal. This paper suggests the result of the research should be adopted for the political and judicial decisions for labor based on the constitutional equal protection.
Our 2020 Annual Conference was scheduled to be held at the University of Wrocław in Poland on July 9-11, 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICON·S Executive Committee has decided to postpone our 2020 Conference to 2021. Our next Annual Conference will take place from July 8-10, 2021, in Wrocław, Poland.
Procedural details regarding the organization of the 2021 Conference will follow in the months ahead.
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