Oklahoma Code § 25-1309

Title 25. Definitions And General Provisions: Seniority and merit systems - Compulsory retirement
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Notwithstanding any other provision of Section 1101 et seq. of
this title, it is not a discriminatory practice for an employer:
1.  To apply different standards of compensation or different
terms, conditions, privileges, or responsibilities of employment
pursuant to a bona fide seniority or merit system, or a system which
measures earnings by quantity or quality of production or to
employees who work in different locations, if the differences are
not the result of an intention to discriminate because of race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic
information; or
2.  To give and to act upon the results of a professionally-
developed ability test if the test, its administration, or action
upon the results is not designed, intended, or used to discriminate
because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age,
disability, or genetic information.
3.  To require the compulsory retirement of any person who has
attained the age of sixty-five (65) and who, for the two-year period
immediately before retirement, is employed in a bona fide executive
or high policymaking position, if such person is entitled to an
immediate nonforfeitable annual retirement benefit from a pension,
profit-sharing, savings or deferred compensation plan, or any
combination of such plans, of the employer, which equals, in the
aggregate, at least Forty-four Thousand Dollars ($44,000.00).
Added by Laws 1968, c. 388, § 309.  Amended by Laws 1981, c. 231, §
8; Laws 1985, c. 165, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 2011, c. 270, §
9, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.

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