More older workers are likely to find an “invisible wall” of ageism between them and a new job, resulting in greater numbers being stuck in long-term unemployment, charity Age UK has warned. Figures published by the Department of Communities and Local Government as part of the Citizenship Survey: 2009-10 show ageism is still the biggest…

Pensioners have become eligible for jury service for the first time on Monday as the Scottish Government attempts to modernise the system.The upper age limit of 65 for jurors, which was raised from 60 in 1980, is to be scrapped and replaced with a right of excusal for anyone aged 71 and over.There will be…

Viewing entries in LA Daily News In what an attorney says is the largest award of its kind in Los Angeles legal history, a 66-year-old man was awarded $26 million by a jury that found he was discriminated against and harassed based upon his age by his supervising managers at Staples. 

Viewing entries tagged AARP 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. Comment

Flicking through the tabloids and broadsheets, watching prime-time TV news and trailing through web content, I realise that we have a problem – a big one. The youth of today are suffering from age discrimination. Stamped with the “hoodies” or “chav” label and thought of as an unruly, disrespectful and dangerous bunch, we are simultaneously marginalised…

Commenting on confirmation that the Government will abolish the Default Retirement Age (DRA), Georgina Jones, Associate, Sackers & Partners, outlines the likely impact for workers and company pension schemes:Schemes ‘risk’ age discrimination claims”Although the Government is still of the opinion that the removal of the default retirement age (DRA) will not affect occupational pension schemes…

A 24-year-old nursery nurse who was left infertile by childhood appendicitis is claiming age discrimination after being denied IVF treatment because she is too young. Andrea Heywood and her husband Aaron have been turned down three times by their local primary care trust in Portsmouth and been told they must wait until she is 30…

This year the Government promised to end ageism in the Health Service and introduced laws that enable the elderly to sue if they are unfairly refused treatment. But a report today warns that patients in their 50s are three times more likely to be offered an emergency treatment for heart attacks than those in their…

The BBC is facing a rapidly increasing number of claims for sex and age discrimination by its female staff. The number of cases has quadrupled in two years, as corporation bosses have faced a series of public outcries over decisions such as the axing of Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips. But to prevent embarrassing…

After winning her age discrimination case against the BBC, former Countryfile presenter Miriam O’Reilly asks Les Dennis, Arlene Phillips and Alan Yentob why the over-50s are overlooked in television. O’Reilly, 53, was one of four female presenters who were dropped from Countryfile when the show moved from Sunday mornings to a peak slot on Sunday…