It was neither direct nor indirect age discrimination when two part-time partial retires had their posts deleted. Ms Craig and Ms Richardson were 56 years old and worked part-time for the HMRC. Ms Craig worked just under 30 hours a week over four days and Ms Richardson worked 21 hours a week over three days.…

The redundancy rate for those in their 50s is more than double the rate for those in their 40s, claims new research. The analysis, produced by over 50s jobs site Rest Less, was produced using data from the Office for National Statistics. What does the data show? It shows that, for the period of April…

It was not indirect age discrimination to use an internal Talent Pool when deciding who to recruit. Even if it were age discrimination, it would have been justified. Mrs Ryan worked at South West Ambulance Services NHS Trust (“the Trust”) as Learning and Development Officer. Her role was graded at Band 7. She was aged…

Do “older academics” really need to “make room for the young?” According to a recent opinion article in the Times Higher Education publication (“Giving up the post”, 13 August), they most certainly do. Apparently too many of us old ’uns (I am 71), safe in the knowledge that the Equality Act 2010 abolished enforced retirement,…

Instances of alleged age discrimination were not part of a continuing act because they involved treatment by different people and long periods of time had passed between each incident. Ms Diakoumis was employed as a cabin crew by Qantas for 27 years, working as Customer Services Manager from 2001. Ms Diakoumis failed to complete a…

There was no age discrimination after the wife of the business owner, and her father, accused a young employee of having an affair with her husband. Ms Gosling started working as a Senior Canine Hydrotherapist for Mr Harding (a sole trader) on 2 April 2014.   Mrs Harding worked on the same site as Mr Harding’s…

It was not indirect age discrimination to use an internal Talent Pool when deciding who to recruit. Even if it were age discrimination, it would have been justified. Comment An Employment Tribunal dismissed an age discrimination claim which argued that a Council worker had been sacked because of a stereotypical assumption about the behaviour of…

This was an appeal by R&R against the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”). It concerned the retirement provisions under the (now repealed) Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (“the Regulations”). The facts of the case are repeated in our EAT summary. Decision The Court of Appeal dismissed R&R’s appeal. The Court of Appeal held that…

Dr Magoulas began working for Queen Mary University of London (“QMUL”) on 1 April 2000 as a Non-Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Neurosurgery. Due to funding issues, QMUL needed to make redundancies. Dr Magoulas was placed at risk. At the same time QMUL had advertised for 20 Early Career Researchers (“ECR”) in a bid…

Dr Lees worked for Imperial College. After 28 years continuous service, her employment became at risk of redundancy. Dr Lees was offered alternative employment, but refused and claimed that such alternative employment was not suitable. There was no work for Dr Lees to perform under her existing contract as Joint Assistant Director of the CTEU.…