Viewing entries in The Sun As a recent shows 60% of the elderly report facing age discrimination, Peta Todd’s experience reveals the loneliness and invisibility of the elderly. The anti-ageism watchdog that fights age discrimination in the workplace employs FEWER older people than most of the firms it monitors, a study revealed yesterday.
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Viewing entries tagged Olympic Committee The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) have been given an Employers Forum on Age (EFA) award for their work on tackling age discrimination in the workplace.
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Viewing entries tagged Pay and benefits Did additional “pension strain cost” influence a decision not to make someone redundant? The EAT found an error in the ET’s reasoning when looking at justification, so remitted the case for rehearing. The ECJ rules that it was not discrimination to withhold a 10% termination payment to a “young…
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Viewing entries tagged University of Manchester The paper draws on findings from a two-year, nationwide, participative study of age discrimination in the United Kingdom, the Research on Age Discrimination (RoAD) project,” researchers in Manchester, United Kingdom report.
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Viewing entries tagged Whistleblowing In Scotland, Professor Bernard King (64), who has already lodged a complaint of age discrimination, is now claiming he was victimised for acting as a “whistleblower” by raising complaints on behalf of staff Speaking about the prohibition on publication of details about this age discrimination case, Louise Bagshawe, a Conservative MP,…
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Viewing entries in Employment Tribunal The University of Oxford has successfully defended its retirement age. Comment A 37 year old job applicant’s age discrimination claim has been struck out by the Employment Tribunal for being “fatally flawed”. Comment An 88 year old woman who was sacked has become the oldest person to win an age…
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Viewing entries tagged Aviva A major new study by Aviva has found that 37% of employees believe there is age discrimination in their workplace, but just 19% of employers are concerned about it. Comment
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Viewing entries tagged University In Scotland, Professor Bernard King (64), who has already lodged a complaint of age discrimination, is now claiming he was victimised for acting as a “whistleblower” by raising complaints on behalf of staff
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Viewing entries tagged OECD In October last year, the government announced the SPA would rise to 66 by 2020, accelerating the pace of change advocated by the Labour government, which planned to raise the SPA to 66 by 2026. However, the OECD says the reform does not go far enough.
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Viewing entries tagged Travel Pensioners holidaying abroad this summer face being hit by annual increases of up to 90 per cent in the cost of their travel insurance. “The search for travel cover was very frustrating,” says marathon runner Amanda Wilkins. “I’m in good health and have run six marathons, the last just two years…
