Katie Hood
speaker
592 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Katie Hood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There were, of course, unintended consequences from making mandatory retirement ages illegal.
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Ironically, it created new ways to discriminate against older workers.
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Workers, because like sure, it protects current employees from being forced out, but employers might choose not to hire older workers at all because they worry they'll be difficult to let go later.
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And kind of surprisingly, mandatory retirement is still allowed in some industries in the United States.
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For commercial pilots, air traffic controllers, federal firefighters, often state judges.
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In these professions, you do not have the right to stay on until you decide to leave.
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Air traffic controllers have a mandatory retirement age of 56, so young.
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Commercial pilots have a mandatory retirement age of
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65 and that age cap was based on a years long safety study.
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When Congress tried to raise the age of retirement for pilots to sixty-seven a few years ago, the pilots union said.
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We don't want that unless you can prove that raising the age is safe.
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And Sam's really just saying
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Maybe there are other professions out there that should also consider age caps.
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay.
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So I I'm I just I have to ask you how old how old are you?
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You're fifty four.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Fifty five.
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