A New York woman has sued Sean “Diddy” Combs for age discrimination, saying the rapper-producer fired her two decades after she helped launch his career. Francesca Spero, of Malverne, filed the age discrimination lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan. The lawsuit says the 51-year-old woman introduced Combs to hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and Uptown…

Selina Scott and Peter Sissons may have accused modern television executives of ageism – but one former colleague says it’s only right that newsreaders are getting younger. John Suchet, who read the news on ITN from 1987 to 2004, says the difficulties of 24-hour news mean newsreaders today need far more “youthful energy” than did…

Women over the age of 40 could get free fertility treatment on the NHS for the first time. The Health Service may have to scrap controversial age limits for IVF to avoid the threat of being sued under age discrimination laws. In future, trusts may decide whether women can have free IVF cycles by testing…

Twenty-five in every hundred people said they were discriminated against for their age, 20 for their ethnic or national background and another 33 for their gender in Hungary last year, a recent survey research institute Tarki released to MTI on Tuesday said. Tarki conducted the survey in April-June asking 3,040 people. Nine percent in the…

Saga, which represents the interests of the over 50s, said a universal state pension of £130 a week should be provided at age 70. Raising the state pension would help savers who have seen their rates of return plummet during the recession and reduce complex means tested benefits, it said. Sage also called for an…

British companies will need to retain their ageing talent as the number of people retiring over the next ten years may outnumber the number of people finishing education. In the next ten years employers will need to fill an estimated 13.5 million job vacancies, according to research from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.…

Research carried out by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), shows that almost 100,000 over 50s are long term unemployed. IPPR suggest that one of the elements hidden in the official figure is this age discrimination evident during the recession. The risk is that older people who have been out of work for this…

People aged 50 or above who lose their jobs are more likely to remain out of work for longer periods of time than all other age groups. Research produced by leading think tank Policy Exchange also found that older workers are still being discriminated against on the grounds of their age. The report – Too Much…

Mrs Killen (aged 57) worked as Head of Conference for Brunel University (“the University”). As a result of changes to the management structure, Mrs Killen’s role was made redundant. She applied for one of the new roles that were created as a result of the restructure but was unsuccessful. Mr Lindsay (aged 38) was appointed.…

Today’s children could live to 120 and work until they’re 100, it’s been claimed. But which occupations might they take on? Imagine you went to a football stadium and the steward who showed you to your seat was 93 years old. Today, most people might find such a sight surprising. But Rohit Talwar thinks that,…