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  • Should we abolish the National Minimum Wage for young people?

    The youth unemployment figures reached an all time high of 1.02m in November 2011. The youth unemployment figure has not been below 500,000 in the last 20 years and has been on a constant rise since around 2003. Long-term youth unemployment is now over 250,000. There are many different reasons for this sustained rise in…

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  • Retiring the Default Retirement Age (DRA): what has been the impact? UPDATED

    December 4, 2016 Tom Heys In 2014, our analysis showed that the removal of the DRA may have doubled the growth in the numbers of over 65s in employment. Is this still the case? Our previous analysis Our analysis from 2014 is available here. In it we show that before the abolition of the Default…

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  • LATEST AGE DISCRIMINATION CASES — age discrimination

    Viewing entries tagged Dismissal An Employment Tribunal dismissed a “half-hearted” age discrimination claim brought alongside another claim. The claimant wanted to “raise the ante”. Comment A comment that someone was “too old” could be age-related harassment. Comment Previous “sham” redundancy involving an older employee was not evidence of age discrimination. Comment A woman was not…

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  • LATEST AGE DISCRIMINATION CASES — age discrimination

    Viewing entries in Employment Tribunal A 14-year-old schoolgirl who was sacked for being “too young” has won an age discrimination claim. Comment Stopping PHI payments when an employee reached 65 years of age was not age discrimination. Comment Ms Anne Giwa Amu v Department for Work and Pensions: 1600465/2017 Comment It was indirect age discrimination…

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  • Germany

    This summary of age discrimination law in Germany has been prepared by Kliemt & Vollstädt, the Ius Laboris member for Germany: www.kliemt.de Overview On 18 August 2006, the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG) came into force. The AGG implements the Framework Directive 2000/78/EC as well as Directives 2000/43/EC, 2002/73/EC amending Directive 76/207/EEC and…

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  • Germany — age discrimination

    This summary of age discrimination law in Germany has been prepared by Kliemt & Vollstädt, the Ius Laboris member for Germany: www.kliemt.de Overview On 18 August 2006, the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG) came into force. The AGG implements the Framework Directive 2000/78/EC as well as Directives 2000/43/EC, 2002/73/EC amending Directive 76/207/EEC and…

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  • LATEST AGE DISCRIMINATION CASES — age discrimination

    Viewing entries tagged Pay and benefits A doctor left a pension scheme to avoid tax penalties. Years later, his employer set up a scheme to compensate those affected. It wasn’t indirect age discrimination to limit the retrospective effect of the scheme. Comment Did additional “pension strain cost” influence a decision not to make someone redundant?…

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  • Retiring the Default Retirement Age (DRA): what has been the impact?

    The Default Retirement Age (“DRA”) allowed employers in the UK to forcibly retire staff over 65 and was abolished in 2011. Now that some three years have passed since then, we wanted to see what, if any, impact this has had. To do this, we analysed data from the ONS showing the number of over…

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  • LATEST AGE DISCRIMINATION CASES — age discrimination

    Viewing entries tagged Harassment An Employment Tribunal found no evidence of direct age discrimination, indirect age discrimination, or harassment. Comment An employee was subjected to a campaign on age-related harassment. The individual harasser was required to pay £50,000 compensation. Comment An Employment Tribunal awarded £27k after a menopausal woman suffered an awful campaign of age-related…

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  • LATEST AGE DISCRIMINATION CASES — age discrimination

    Viewing entries in EAT The EAT held that it was not direct age discrimination for PHI payments to be stopped when an employee turned 65, despite the state pension age being 66. Comment The EAT has considered whether “absence of financial means” is capable of justifying indirect age discrimination. Comment The Employment Appeal Tribunal has…

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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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