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  • Elliot v Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

    A claim for direct age discrimination in relation to a ‘pension age cap’ policy in a voluntary redundancy payment succeeded. Facts Mrs Elliot’s employment ended on her ‘voluntary exit’ (VE) from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) at the age of 64. The PHSO sought volunteers under its VE scheme as part of a…

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  • Millions of workers have opted out of their public sector pensions schemes

    MPs have warned that there is a “perfect storm” looming, as almost 250,000 civil servants and emergency workers have opted out of their pension schemes. This could create generations of cost issues for the public sector. As more workers stop saving for their futures, it potentially creates more pensioners without the means to support themselves.…

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  • Giwa Amu v Department for Work and Pensions

    [summary to follow] The liability judgment is available here. The remedy judgment is available here. Ms Anne Giwa Amu v Department for Work and Pensions: 1600465/2017 Discover more from agediscrimination.info

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  • Johnson v London Borough of Newham

    The decision to allow a younger employee to work from home was a one-off act and it was not age discrimination to permit it. Ms Johnson joined the Home Adaptions for Independent Living (HAIL) team as an Operations Support Worker in June 2016. The role was a job-share in which she was to work 18…

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  • Rana v Royal Mail Group Ltd

    Asking the date of an example given when answering an interview question was not direct age discrimination or age-related harassment. Mr Rana began working for the Royal Mail Group in 1999. In 2017 he was working in the Resourcing Department of Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre in HR administration. He applied for a Deputy Manager role…

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  • Portelli v London Legal + Imaging Solutions Limited

    A decision to dismiss an older print room manager and replace him with younger colleagues was motivated by age, not a “breakdown of mutual trust and confidence”. Mr Portelli was employed by London Legal and Imaging Solutions Ltd (”London Legal”) for seventeen years as the print room manager. He was managed by one of the…

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  • Pitcher v University of Oxford

    A Professor at the University of Oxford has lost his claim of unfair dismissal and age discrimination after being compulsorily retired. The claimant, Professor John Pitcher, is a well-respected academic who was employed under joint roles as Professor of English literature at Oxford University, and as an English Tutor at St John’s College. He brought…

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  • Kelly v Allianz Management Services Ltd

    Telling someone to “grow up” was not direct age discrimination. Mr Kelly began working for Allianz in 2013 in Birmingham in a Customer Claims Support role. He was a high performer. Mr Kelly referred a friend of his, Mr Asson, to Allianz. Both applied for the role of Team Leader and Mr Asson was successful.…

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  • Bogdanoviene v Fusion Funkymen Ltd and another

    The dismissal of a hairdresser for redundancy was not age discrimination, despite the fact that two younger members who were also made redundant had carried on working in the salon in a different capacity. Mrs Bogdanoviene was a hairstylist. She had been employed for fourteen years and was summarily dismissed on 8 April 2018. She…

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  • Singh v Bradford College and Inprint and Design Limited

    An Employment Tribunal found that a 54-year-old employee did not suffer age discrimination despite being made redundant 12 weeks before being able to access his pension. Mr Singh worked as a Deputy Director on secondment to ‘Inprint and Design Limited’. Significant changes to the structure of Inprint and Design Limited were required for financial reasons.…

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The court said that he didn’t suffer age discrimination.

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Managers at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading reportedly terminated Eileen Jolly in January 2017 after she failed to properly use a computer system.

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The House of Representatives in Nigeria approved a bill that will ban age discrimination against applicants to positions with Federal Government Agencies.

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The pensioner and self proclaimed "young god" believes it will improve his chances both in the workplace and on Tinder.

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New figures published by the Office for National Statistics have shown that, over the 2015-17 period, life expectancy stopped rising for the first time since records began.

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A new report by the Centre for Ageing Better has called for employers to be more age-friendly and inclusive of those over 50 years of age.

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Scott Morrison announced yesterday that the Government will no longer proceed with its plan to raise the age of pension access to 70.

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A study by Aviva has found that more than half of over 50s feel unsupported at work and almost two thirds were planning to retire later than they thought they would a decade ago.

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An interesting study published in the British Journal of Psychology reveals the effect that makeup has on the perception of a woman’s age.

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61 per cent of Americans aged 45 or over said that they have seen or experienced age discrimination at work. Women, African-Americans and Hispanics were more likely to be affected.

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MPs have suggested that social care could be funded by applying a new tax to the over 40s, but there has been a suggestion that it might worsen employment opportunities for older workers.

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To mark the 50th anniversary of the US Age Discrimination in Employment Act coming into force, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a report into age discrimination at work.

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Labour market experts have called for enhanced protection against age at work ahead of the Taipei Ministry of Labor’s introduction of a draft act for the employment of middle-aged and elderly workers, set to be released before the end of this month.

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Former materials buyer Codie Rael was been awarded $31 million - $3m compensatory damages and $28m punitive damages – after being forced out in 2014.

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The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in the Philippines has urged workers to report those companies that violate age discrimination laws.

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A new study has suggested that there is a direct connection between how well we age and how we view old age. Those with a positive attitude toward old age are likely to live longer — up to eight years — than their more pessimistic counterparts. But how, as older people, we are treated by others also has a big impact.

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According to a study by the Royal Society for Public Health, ageism is the most common form of discrimination both in the UK and Europe. Sexism and racism are widely recognised and tackled, but ageism often goes unchallenged.

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According to reports, the Black Eyed Peas singer and star of The Voice UK has been hit with an age discrimination claim.

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A campaign for a dedicated minister for older people received a boost today after national newspaper the Daily Express joined the movement and launched its own “crusade”.

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The Gerontological Society of America has published a report, “Longevity Economics: Leveraging the Advantages of an Aging Society” highlighting America's changing age demographics and suggesting a number of policy priorities.

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