A survey of national Public Service appointments in China has found they do not always offer equal opportunities to qualified job seekers. Conducted by the Constitutionalism Research Institute of China University of Political Science and Law, the survey showed that while they never publicly acknowledge any form of discrimination, PS employers in China didn’t hesitate…

Older women are barely visible on TV because of a “combination of ageism and sexism”, it has been claimed. New figures released by Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman, show how women disappear from TV screens as they get older. As part of the work of the Older Women’s Commission, Harman said that once women on…

This week a seemingly anonymous folder landed on the desk of Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, the autonomous body set up to represent the licence payer at the corporation. It may at first glance have seemed to him to be just another document to be answered, dismissed and forgotten about but I…

Saga is urging the Government to rethink its plans for accelerating statepension age increases. It says the current proposals involve both gender and age discrimination. Saga says it supports the Government’s intention to accelerate increases in state pension age, in recognition of the great news that people are living ever longer.  Life expectancy is rising faster than…

Steve Webb said the growing numbers of people living into their 80s and 90s would leave taxpayers with a rising bill and meant “the sums” would never add up if people continued to retire in their 50s. In future, increases in life expectancy will automatically trigger a rise in the state pension age, with most…

Excessive payouts in sex, age or race discrimination cases could be reined in under Government plans. Employment minister Ed Davey will today float plans to end the tribunal jackpot system, which can see businesses crippled by penalties running to hundreds of thousands of pounds. And, in a major review of workplace law, he will outline…

A growing number of people think traditional retirement will no longer be possible in the future, according to recent research. The Government’s plans to scrap mandatory retirement at 65 will certainly enable more people to work into their late sixties and seventies, with the potential to never give up work. However, the latest official unemployment…

As many as 100,000 were told by their boss they no longer had a job last year because they had reached the default retirement age of 65. It is a sharp increase of four times as much the previous year, when 25,000 people were forced to retire, according to the data compiled by Age Concern…

When Miriam O’Reilly won her landmark age discrimination case against the BBC she said she was looking forward to returning to work for the corporation and unveiled plans for a support group for women facing similar difficulties. The second of these ambitions will come to fruition this Thursday with the official launch of the Women’s Equality Network,…

New Ofcom research reveals the extent to which the UK has become addicted to smartphones, with people confessing to using them everywhere from the dining table to the bathroom and bedroom. Over a quarter of adults (27 per cent) and almost half of teenagers (47 per cent) now own a smartphone, according to Ofcom’s latest…