Viewing entries in Royal Gazette Campaigners are calling on Government to clarify when it will fulfil its promise to outlaw age discrimination in the workplace. The Bermudan Government is still looking at prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of age in the workplace, according to Community Minister Wayne Scott. The Government in Bermuda has pledged to…
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The Duke of Edinburgh, never one to mince his words, reaches his 90th birthday today defending ageism and dismissing animals rights activists as “bunny huggers”. Admitting he is approaching his own “sell-by date”, Prince Philip said the physical and mental fragilities that come with age mean discrimination on the grounds of age can be justified.…
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Viewing entries in Scoop Independent News Changes signalled to the student loan scheme in New Zealand Budget will discriminate against older age people and almost certainly breach human rights and age discrimination law, the NZ Green Party said recently.
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Radical changes to the pensions system will give millions of older people a more secure future, MP Steve Webb claimed yesterday. He said the new measures will give more people access to a workplace pension, which will be a major boost to middle income earners. The Pensions Bill will also ban bosses from forcing staff…
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Viewing entries in Guardian Mature-age workers still lack champions in the Australian workforce, although companies such as CommBank, Westpac and Bus Queensland are leading the way. Comment Age discrimination in the media doesn’t stop with humans. Our collective obsession with youth extends to the animal world. Isa Leshko has set out to document old age…
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An 88 year old medical secretary has won a claim of age discrimination after she was dismissed and forced out of her office by hospital security. As we reported last year, Eileen Jolly, 88, was dismissed from her role at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. Colleagues had reportedly raised concerns about her “frailty”. There had also…
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The perils of being a banker on the wrong side of 50 are well-documented, but surely age discrimination is more commonplace in the cutting edge, young buck-populated world of technology? Certainly that’s the assertion of IT recruiters Greythorn, which claims that the majority people over-50 working in the sector feel insecure in their job, largely…
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With the default retirement age soon to be a relic of the past, DeeDee Doke discovers that the greater battle is to change both workers’ and employers’ attitudes to age. Chris Ball fixes a steely eye on the interrogator in front of him and leans forward in his seat. “You’re looking at a 65-year-old man…
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The former colleagues are suing the chef at an employment tribunal. One, a female accountant who can only be identified as Ms J, is claiming unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination. She is also making a claim under the Public Interest Disclosure Act, which protects so-called “whistleblowers”. The other is a former chief executive of the…
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The EAT confirmed that applying a cap to payments under a redundancy scheme to ensure that employees close to pension age do not receive a windfall can be justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. Facts Kraft operated a voluntary redundancy scheme to which it applied a cap to ensure that redundancy…
