Legal Opinion
O'Reilly v. Director of the Division of Employment Security
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 13, 1979PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
For a period of nearly thirty-five years, from 1942 through 1976, the plaintiff Lawrence J. O’Reilly worked as a telephone operator for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Until 1975 he was the lone operator on the "graveyard shift” (10 P.M. to 8 A.M.); thereafter, that job having been "phased out,” he worked with other operators on the 5 p.m. to midnight shift.
The retirement age at M.I.T. was fixed at sixty-five and O’Reilly’s sixty-fifth birthday fell on December 12, 1976. Until some time in 1975, the M.I.T. retirement plan rounded out the employee’s sixty-fifth year at the end of…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Warner Co. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of ReviewSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1959
- Campbell Soup Co. v. BD. OF REVIEW, DIV. OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITYSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1953
- In re the Claim of FisherNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- Raytheon Co. v. Director of Division of Employment SecurityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Keough v. Director of the Division of Employment SecurityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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3Cited by5 opinions
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