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GRADUAL RETIREMENT [5 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Employment Benefits
OBS

Type of leave available to employees in all departments who would like to make a gradual transition to retirement.

Key term(s)
  • transition leave

French

Domaine(s)
  • Avantages sociaux
OBS

Type de congé offert aux employés de tous les ministères qui voudraient faire une transition progressive vers la retraite.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transfer of Personnel
DEF

An approach providing for gradual reduction in employment through resignation, retirement and death.

CONT

To reduce the number of employees by attrition.

PHR

Natural attrition.

OBS

attrition: term used in the context of the Strategic and Operating Review of the federal government of Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilité du personnel
DEF

Réduction normale et incontrôlable des effectifs par suite de décès, de maladie, de retraite, de déplacement ou autres causes de départ.

PHR

Attrition naturelle, diminution naturelle des effectifs, usure naturelle des effectifs.

OBS

attrition : terme en usage dans le contexte de l'Examen stratégique et fonctionnel du gouvernement fédéral du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pensions and Annuities
CONT

Gradual Retirement(pre-retirement). Increasingly, collective agreements contain pre-retirement or gradual retirement programs. These programs allow older workers to gradually decrease their workload, normally through a reduction in their hours of work over a period of time, before retiring and collecting their pensions. The purpose of these programs is twofold :(1) to facilitate the transition from full-time employment to retirement; and(2) to provide younger workers with the opportunity to secure full-time employment. The requirements and conditions of these programs, as well as their impact on benefits, vary from one agreement to the next. The period of time proceeding retirement within which an employee can reduce his or her workload also varies. This period may range from one to five years.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pensions et rentes
CONT

Retraite graduelle (avant la retraite). Les conventions collectives prévoient de plus en plus souvent des programmes de préretraite ou de retraite graduelle. Ces programmes permettent aux travailleurs âgés de réduire progressivement leur charge de travail habituellement en réduisant leurs heures de travail sur une certaine période avant de partir à la retraite et de toucher leur pension. Ces programmes visent un double but : 1) faciliter la transition du travail à plein temps à la retraite, et 2) offrir aux jeunes travailleurs la possibilité d’accéder à un emploi à plein temps. Les exigences et conditions de ces programmes, ainsi que leurs incidences sur les avantages sociaux varient selon la convention. La période précédant la retraite au cours de laquelle un employé peut réduire sa charge de travail est également variable, pouvant aller de un à cinq ans.

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pensions and Annuities
CONT

Phased retirement is broadly defined as any program allowing for gradual decreases in working time and workload instead of an abrupt move from full-time employment to retirement. Phased retirement may take one of two forms : a pre-retirement gradual reduction in hours(or days) of work or post-retirement part-time work for pensioners who wish to remain employed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pensions et rentes
CONT

Par retraite échelonnée, on entend de manière générale tout programme permettant de réduire progressivement le temps et la charge de travail au lieu de passer brutalement d’un emploi à plein temps à la retraite. Il existe deux formules de retraite échelonnée : une réduction graduelle des heures (ou des jours) de travail avant la retraite, ou un emploi à temps partiel après le départ à la retraite pour les pensionnés qui souhaitent continuer à travailler.

Spanish

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Record 5 1995-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
PHR

gradual transition to retirement

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
PHR

transition progressive vers la retraite

Spanish

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