When will the UK Government implement legislation that will ban age discrimination in the provision of goods and services? This is the question being raised by Ruth Marks MBE, the Older People’s Commissioner for Wales. She has expressed her significant disappointment at the lack of progress and said that it is “worrying” that legislation has…

Mr Felber, who was born in 1956, is a professor and has been a federal civil servant since 1991. Under Austrian law, only periods of training and study completed after the age of 18 were taken into account when considering pension rights. Mr Felber had completed three years of education prior to the age of…

Construction giant Bovis Lend Lease is facing an age discrimination and unfair dismissal claim from a former in-house lawyer. Lawyer Anthony Philpott, who worked for the ­company for 11 years, alleges he was unfairly dismissed in June last year because of age discrimination and ­victimisation claims he had launched a year earlier. The redundancy process used by the…

The union representing engineers has filed age discrimination complaints against Boeing, saying that older employees are being targeted for layoffs. The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace filed complaints Wednesday at the state Human Rights Commission and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the aerospace giant, The Everett Herald reported (http://bit.ly/1nYfa11) Thursday. The…

The ECJ has held that EU law setting an age limit of 65 years old for pilots was not age discriminatory and was justified. Comment A Tribunal dismissed a claim of age discrimination was dismissed after holding that, because of uncertainty about the Claimant’s real age, the employer could not have known their age when…

We reported previously on the Coalition Government’s plans to combat age discrimination by abolishing the default retirement age. We report now on some of the detail contained within the consultation document “Phasing out the default retirement age”. The Government estimates that the removal of the Default Retirement Age will impact upon a number of areas.…

Viewing entries in BBC News Politicians are being urged to scrap the default retirement age amid concerns that employers have used it to save costs during the recession.  A senior Catholic police officer is to take a case against the PSNI alleging religious and age discrimination.  A policy of health testing older taxi drivers in…

French law requires a payment to be made to fixed term contract employees at the end of their contract. The payment is equal to 10% of the total gross remuneration that the employee received during the length of the contract. There is no eligibility for the payment where the employee is a “young person” and…

Ms Dippenaar had been a teacher with Bethnal Green and Shoreditch Education Trust (“the Education Trust”) for 13 years, during which time her teaching was rated highly and her students performed consistently well. From 2012, when a new Head of Faculty/Director of Learning was appointed, Ms Dippenaar began to receive negative assessments following teaching observations.…

Young people were already helping shape their own future at the Assembly yesterday – just two days after Obama told them to. Members of the Northern Ireland Youth Forum (NIYF) took the President’s advice to heart when they appeared before the committee which monitors the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and called…