”We need a CEO who can have a perspective of 5-7 years, and it's enough to look at Monica's birth certificate to realize that then a CEO change will occur during this period”, said chairman of the board Kenneth Bengtsson, to Dagens industri on Sunday with reference to the fact that she is turning 63 this year.
The wording has given rise to questions about age discrimination.
This is something that can be reported to the Equality Ombudsman. If the person who is affected believes they have been subjected to discrimination, then we could conduct a supervision and assess whether it is a matter of age discrimination, says Clas Lundstedt, press officer at the Equality Ombudsman, to DN.
Andreas Miller, chairman of the trade union Ledarna, believes it is a matter of age discrimination and a ”non-modern view of age”.
With a rising retirement age, a five- to seven-year perspective is no problem even for a 62-year-old, he says to the magazine and adds that it is important that people in leading positions have age-aware leadership.
Lingegård herself has not commented on Bengtsson's motivation.
