Viewing entries in Oxford University Their justification relates to academic and financial planning, maintaining opportunities for career progression, promoting diversity in the workforce, and avoiding invidious performance management processes.
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Viewing entries in Irish Medical Times The alleged age discrimination claim arises from its failure to appoint a number of area medical officers (AMOs) to senior medical officers (SMOs), seeing as they perform the same work.
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An 88-year-old woman was sacked from her job as a NHS secretary. She has become the oldest person to ever bring an age discrimination claim in the UK. Managers at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading reportedly terminated Eileen Jolly in January 2017 after she failed to properly use a computer system. Mrs Jolly was…
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A tuft of grey chest hair pokes out of the top of Alan Kean’s stripey shirt. It catches my eye as we drink tea amid the deafening chatter and the expensive fig trees in Portcullis House where Alan, 55, is six months into life as a parliamentary intern. In recent months there has been much…
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Viewing entries in The Australian Younger bosses who nag older workers to take redundancies, tell them they’re too old to receive training or deny them promotion are forcing thousands into early retirement. The opening batsman has one of the best records in world cricket, but is convinced he was dropped because he will be 36…
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Older people in Britain are more concerned about age discrimination than their European neighbours and feel negative towards young people, research by Demos suggests. They are also lonelier and poorer than those in similar European countries. The UK performed most poorly on indicators of age discrimination. Nearly half of British people think that age discrimination…
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Viewing entries in The Independent Should recruitment firms be threatened with the Equality and Human Rights Commission if they fail to do more to prevent age discrimination? British soldiers have to serve until age 22 regardless of their joining age: a 16-year-old recruit must serve six years and a 17-year-old five years. Adults just serve…
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Viewing entries in New Zealand Herald In New Zealand, 65+ year olds are the people who today inject around $14 billion a year into the Kiwi economy and undertake unpaid and voluntary work worth $8.5 billion annually. So why are they not valued more? The mother of 24 year old Olympic gold medallist swimmer Rhiannon…
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In their pre-election manifesto, Age Concern and Help The Aged said firms were forcing people to stop work at 65 as a “cheap alternative” to redundancy. Doing so was discriminatory and “tarnished” the lives of people affected, the organisations said. Ministers said their “long-term aim” was to scrap fixed retirement ages. The majority of people…
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A 23-year-old died of cervical cancer because doctors said she was too young for a smear test, her devastated family have claimed. Mercedes Curnow, from Cornwall, first went to her GP at 20 years old but her mother says her symptoms were ‘ignored’ because of her age. After a year of doctors visits, Ms Curnow…
