A big step against age discrimination was taken today after Nigerian lawmakers moved to ban age limits for Government employment. We reported last year on the passage of an age discrimination bill in Nigeria. This week, the bill was finally passed. The House of Representatives in Nigeria today approved banning age discrimination against job seekers…
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This page contains information on the main pieces of age discrimination, as well as other related documents. Scroll down or use the links immediately below to navigate. UK age discrimination law The Age Discrimination Act There is no such thing as this in the UK and there never has been. This mistake is often repeated in…
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All age groups are spending longer unemployed. Excluding the extremes of ages, little more than 50% of people find employment within 6 months. In addition, the downward trend that can be seen in the 2006 graph is back. Our conclusion from the 2009 data no longer appears substantiated. Each five year age group tends to…
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The 1990s Between 1992 and 2000, there were around 400,000-500,000 people aged over 65 in employment. This number fluctuated quite a bit, but never went outside of this range. For practical purposes, it was relatively static. The trendline through these points proves this. The line is very flat. Its gradient (i.e. the number before the…
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According to the 2020 estimate (published in June 2021) there are 717,252 people aged 18 years old in England and Wales: 369,604 men and 347,648 women. 18 year olds in England and Wales According to the 2020 estimate (published in June 2021) there are 640,353 people aged 18 years old in England and Wales: 330,311…
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There are 354,000 more people aged 50+ in employment since the recession (including 182,000 more 65+ year olds), but 568,000 less people aged under 25 in employment. There was an 8.7% rise in employment amongst those aged 65+ during the recession. On average, someone aged 16-24 lost their job every 111 seconds during the recession. The recession…
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As we reported here, the Employment Tribunal saw another rise in the number of age discrimination claims. The number of claims increased by 131% over last three years (from 2,949 to 6,800) whereas other discrimination claims (sex (excluding equal pay), race, disability, religion and sexual orientation) have declined by 16% over same period. Age is…
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The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Social Conditions (“Eurofound”) has released a study showing the effects on older workers of the economic crisis that began in 2008. It is available here. It found that, on the whole, the economic crisis did not have a negative impact on older workers. In fact, the…
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In June 2014, the Government published its report “Fuller Working Lives”. This details the Government’s strategy to reduce the numbers of people leaving the labour market early. Out of the 10.2m people aged between 50 and the state pension age, 2.9m of these (28%) are out of work. But of those, just 375,000 are officially…
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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…
