A 100-year-old Briton has become the world’s oldest marathon runner after finishing a race in Canada. Fauja Singh, from Ilford, east London, ran the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in eight hours, 25 minutes and 16 seconds. The record-holder “hit the wall” at 22 miles but soldiered on for another two hours and finished in 3,850th place,…

Folkestone’s largest employer has been given a breath of fresh air over the Government’s Equalities Bill. There were fears the bill – which would make it illegal to discriminate on the grounds of age – would theaten the existence of SAGA, which employs 3,500 people locally. But on Wednesday those fears were eased when the…

Viewing entries tagged Republican The decision of Judge Michael Scudder (approved by a majority) ruled that the “disparate impact” provisions of the ADEA apply only to workers already in employment. Comment

Viewing entries tagged Young people According to new research, 92.8% of jobseekers aged over 50 feel the Government is ignoring the problem of over 50s unemployment. Employers could be sued under age discrimination laws for taking part in Nick Clegg’s £1 billion scheme to get young people jobs, the Government’s own official guidance has warned.  The…

The IMDb age discrimination lawsuit just sprouted another wrinkle. In a court filing on behalf of the anonymous actress suing the movie website for revealing her age as 40, a lawyer for the Screen Actors Guild contends that if the woman were to reveal her identity — as IMDb has requested — “the very harm [to…

An ongoing study by UCLA and Stanford University researchers of 20,000 registered voters has found that far more of them would vote against Sen. John McCain because of his age than would vote against Sen. Barack Obama because of his race. “We found that ageism is much more prevalent in America than racism,” said Lynn…

Viewing entries tagged Police About 400 police officers who were forced to retire have lost their claim for age discrimination at a tribunal. West Midlands Police has paid out more than £2.5 million to 207 officers who were forced into early retirement in a scheme which has since been declared unlawful age discrimination. Employment tribunal…

A former professional footballer, now 46, has lost an application for extra time in trying to win a compensation claim for age discrimination against the Football Association at Staffordshire. Roger Murphy who used to play for Chesterfield before moving to other clubs, alleged at Birmingham Employment Tribunal that he was refused a coaching job with…

Age Concern and Help the Aged has criticised government proposals to allow exemptions from the ban on age discrimination for health and social care under the Equality Bill. In a document published yesterday on implementing the ban on ageism, the government said it may be possible to allow age discrimination in some circumstances where an…

In the horse trading between the Government and Opposition that took place in the run up to the election the Equality Bill received Royal Assent. Most of the coverage on insurance has concentrated on anti-age discrimination and its potential impact on income protection insurance, with the abolition of a set retirement age. This will come…