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.…

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…

Crimes committed against people because of their age will attract harsher sentences, if a new Bill in Scotland is passed. At the moment, only racially motivated crimes result in tougher sentencing, but a new law would extend it to other protected characteristics. Hate crimes If passed by Parliament, the Bill would provide for new “stirring…

A Catholic Primary School did not have a practice or policy of hiring less experienced (and younger) teachers. From April 2012, Mrs Bradley was employed by St Edward’s Catholic Primary School on a series of fixed-term contracts. She qualified as a teacher later in life when she was aged 50, but had ten years of…

Viewing entries tagged Redundancy Previous “sham” redundancy involving an older employee was not evidence of age discrimination. Comment An Employment Tribunal has said that “last in first out” is not an irrational method of redundancy selection. Comment The dismissal of a hairdresser for redundancy was not age discrimination, despite the fact that two younger members…

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 the claim against both the Chancellor of the university and the College. He received notification in June 2014 that his retirement…

Previous “sham” redundancy involving an older employee was not evidence of age discrimination. Mrs Connor and Mrs Dixon were both employed by Carpetright Plc in financial roles. Carpetright Plc announced that it was proceeding with a Company Voluntary Arrangement (a type of insolvency process). During this, it was proposed that the finance department would be…

The government has announced its response to the McCloud judgment: deferred choice underpin. But what is it and what does it mean for pensions? The recent McCloud judgment upheld the age discrimination of reforms to the public sector pension schemes by the Government in 2014 and 2015. The amendments discriminated against younger workers. The decision…

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.…

Nearly 3 million Brits believe they have faced age discrimination. A recent report from Legal and General Retail Retirement (LGRR) and the Centre for Economics and Business Research has found that 2.99 million job seekers over the age of 50 (52%), who have searched for work in the past five years believe their age made employers…