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…

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…

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…

The lines cross in the 35-39 age group, showing that those in this age group will be neither more nor less affected relative to other ages. 44.1% of those affected will be under 30, despite making up  just 24.3%  of the total workforce. 26.9% of those affected will be under 25, despite making up  just…

There are two different measures of life expectancy in common use: Cohort life expectancy Cohort life expectancy shows the probability of a person dying at each age over the course of their lifetime. It refers to a group of people with the same year of birth. Cohort life expectancy takes into account future mortality improvement,…

Older people in Britain are more concerned about age discrimination than their European neighbours and feel negative towards young people, research by Demos suggests. They are also lonelier and poorer than those in similar European countries. The UK performed most poorly on indicators of age discrimination. Nearly half of British people think that age discrimination…

Recent research from CreativeX, a prominent creative ad tech firm, shows that, in 2022, only 4% of people featured in ads worldwide were aged 60 or older. This discovery comes from an analysis using CreativeX’s technology, which looked at over 126,000 ads featuring more than 25,000 individuals. These ads spanned industries like CPG, Food and…

This summary of age discrimination law in Denmark has been prepared by Norrbom Vinding, the Ius Laboris member for Denmark: https://norrbomvinding.com/en. OVERVIEW The prohibition against age discrimination was enacted into Danish law in December 2004 in connection with the implementation of Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 (the “Directive”). The Directive was implemented through an…

Sacker and Partners is the leading specialist pensions law firm in the UK with 44 expert lawyers, and a first-class client base of over 1,000 pension schemes, including around 20 FTSE 100 companies. Sacker and Partners won Pensions Law Firm of the Year 2006 and Niche Law Firm of the Year 2005. The Department for…

This summary of age discrimination law in Bulgaria has been prepared by Boyanov & Co, the Ius Laboris member for Bulgaria: boyanov.com Overview The prohibition for age discrimination was introduced through the Labour Code in 2001.  It was also laid down in the Protection against Discrimination Act in 2003 (“PDA”). The PDA defines both direct and…