What is the impact of age on employment prospects for a plaintiff in his 60s?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stephanie Ozorio v. Canadian Hearing Society, 2016 ONSC 5440 (CanLII):
Further, age is an impediment. In Hussain v. Suzuki Canada Ltd., [2011] O.J. No. 6355, L.B. Roberts J. observed that a plaintiff in his 60s would undoubtedly face “extremely stiff competition with much younger applicants for the same kind of employment”. Such a plaintiff would be significantly disadvantaged because of his age when competing with younger employees. Similarly, in Leeming v. IBM Canada Ltd., [2015] O.J. No. 1020, Perell J. noted that the plaintiff who was 60 years of age did not have particularly bright prospects for re-employment “competing with younger, more recently trained and less likely expensive talent”.
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