Barking and Dagenham Council loses appeal after 15 employees bring age discrimination claim. A change from one policy to another policy cannot in itself be a provision, criterion or practice for the purposes of the Age Regulations. A former Council employee is successful in possibly the highest value age discrimination claim to date The EAT…

The ECJ has held that a collective agreement prohibiting airline pilots from working after the age of 60 is incompatible with EU law and constitutes age discrimination. In these joined decisions, the ECJ has held that a term in a collective agreement which provides that the pay of a public sector employee is determined by…

The full facts can be found in our summaries of the Employment Appeal Tribunal decision (“EAT”) and the original Employment Tribunal decision (“ET”). In summary, they are as follows. Mr Woodcock was Chief Executive of North Cumbria Primary Care Trust (“the Trust”) and was made redundant following the merger of a number of Primary Care Trusts in…

Mr Methuen, a 54 year old Asian man, worked at the Family department of Community Law Clinic Solicitors Ltd (“CLC”), but was dismissed. His replacement was a 34 year old Afro-Caribbean woman. Mr Methuen brought claims in the ET for direct race, sex and age discrimination. CLC argued that the differences in protected characteristics that…

Mr Abrams was a member of EAD, a limited liability partnership (LLP). For tax reasons, as he approached retirement, he set up a limited company of which he was the sole director and principal shareholder. He withdrew from membership of the LLP and the limited company took his place. It took the profit share that…

Mr Games had applied for a full-time post as a lecturer in the University of Kent’s (“the University’s”) School of Architecture. Mr Games had been encouraged to apply, having established himself as an architectural writer and historian, and having lectured once a week at the University’s School of Architecture. Candidates were required to hold a…

Ms Kristensen (aged 29) was employed by Experian, whose direct contribution (“DC”) pension scheme had the following differing rates of employer contributions according to an employee’s age: Employees aged under 35: employee contribution 3%; Experian contribution 6%; Employees aged between 35 and 44: employee contribution 4%; Experian contribution 8%; Employees aged over 45: employee contribution…

Mrs Miller applied for a position at NSL, a company which supplied traffic wardens. At interview, Mrs Miller’s interviewer stated that she was “too old” for the position and that “people of her age do not have the stamina and leave after three weeks on the job”. Mrs Miller brought a claim for age-based harassment…

Ms Reynolds worked for CLFIS in the role of Chief Medical Officer and was a specialist in medical insurance. She had worked for CLFIS since 1968 and during that time had received several insurance industry awards as well as an OBE for her work in insurance. Ms Reynolds initially worked as an employee. She was…

Until June 2006, candidates to be trained as air traffic controllers had to be under a set age limit, originally 26 but more lately 30. In anticipation of the introduction of the age regulations in 2006, this age limit was abolished. However, in light of concerns within the Service, an age limit of was re-introduced…