Mandatory retirement

Today, I’d like to say why mandatory retirement is necessary. In modern society, mandatory retirement is essential to enhance social and economical efficiencies. Even if there are some differences according to company regulations, nearly every company runs mandatory retirement system. Mandatory retirement is useful from the viewpoint of individual, society and organization.
First, in individual side, as people get older, their physical and mental ability weaken. It is difficult to expect that older workers conduct their job efficiently without any problems.
Second, in society side, mandatory retirement provides younger people with opportunity of employment, so mandatory retirement reduce unemployment rate of the youth.
Finally, in organization side, mandatory retirement makes organization active by providing promotion opportunity to younger workers. Organization is like a blood vessel in our body, so organization needs smooth circulation of human resources.
Therefore, I’d like to say that mandatory retirement is very desirable and recommendable system.

Mandatory retirement provides younger people with opportunity of employment. As you know, nowadays youth unemployment becomes serious social problems in our society. There is statistics that 20% young people are unemployed. That is to day, one out of 5 young people have not their job. This rate is two times of total unemployment rate. Youth unemployment is caused by various reasons, but lack of job is the most fundamental reasons.
Mandatory retirement creates job opportunities for younger people. Therefore, mandatory retirement can contribute to reduce unemployment rate of younger people. In addition, older workers receive lots of wages, so if one older worker retired, at least two younger people could get their jobs.
Please think! Your capable son and daughter graduated university 2 years ago, and they are studying from dawn to midnight to get a job. However, 60 or 70 old people have already occupied every job. This situation makes your son and daughter jobless people. Do you want this situation?

- Economic burden of pensioners should be settled by arranging pension system.
- We have limited jobs, but job demand much larger than supply. Therefore we have to make a choice whether we provide jobs to younger people or to weaken older people.
- Older people should give young people the job, and they should prepare secondary life such as self employed job and volunteer.

- Of course, development of medical technology improved older people’s health and abilities. Sometimes we can see that experienced and capable people’s mandatory retirement is very regretful. However, we should maintain mandatory retirement system as principle of society and organization. This principle maintains our society healthy. If we really need aged experienced people, exceptionally, we could employ as special employment.

- Generally, most outstanding characteristic of organization is hierarchy. Every techniques and know-how can be transferred to subordinates by working together. If mandatory retirement abolished, every people don’t try to transfer their know-how to their co-workers and subordinates to keep on working. Probably people hide their personal know-how. This could hurt development of organization.