Viewing entries in Post Online In addition to raising insurance premiums for women, there are fears that today’s European Court of Justice ruling that gender based pricing in insurance is illegal, will lead to further challenges with regard to age discrimination. 

Mr Gimson worked for the Telegraph Media Group (“TMG”) for a number of years and in a number of different roles, though the legal nature of the relationship between the parties was uncertain.  In 2006 he took up the role of Parliamentary Sketch writer for the Daily Telegraph.  In September 2011, Mr Gimson was approached by…

Age UK has called on the coalition government to do more to tackle age discrimination if it is to push through proposed benefit reforms likely to boost the number of older workers returning to the jobs market. The charity estimates that plans to transfer Incapacity Benefit claimants onto Employment Support Allowance could increase the number…

Companies don’t want elderly or even middle-aged employees. Even if they are selected, they aren’t provided equal opportunities for growth and training compared to younger employees,” laments 62-year-old KCV Georgie, a consultant with Vidya, an NGO based in Delhi. After running his father-in-law’s business , Georgie started looking for a job that would earn him…

Viewing entries in Insurance Age The consultation outlines the government’s intention to end age discrimination in the provision of goods and services and to encourage action to improve access to insurance products.

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…

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…

Viewing entries tagged Hockey Millionaire venture capitalist Greg Hutchings fears he will fail in his expensive attempt to change the England Hockey Board’s policy of allowing players to represent England in this year’s Hockey Masters World Cup only in their own five-year age category.

Under Government plans, companies will no longer be able to retire someone at 65 from next April. Ministers hope the measure will encourage people to work longer to tackle the UK’s pensions shortfall. But ahead of the Department for Business’s response to its consultation on the default retirement age, which could be published as early…

Doctors will be in breach of the law from October if they withhold medical help to patients purely on the basis of their age, the home secretary Theresa May will announce on Tuesday in a tightening of Britain’s age discrimination laws. May and the care services minister, Paul Burstow, will announce that the blanket ban on discrimination…