Millionaire venture capitalist Greg Hutchings fears he will fail in his expensive attempt to change the England Hockey Board’s policy of allowing players to represent England in this year’s Hockey Masters World Cup only in their own five-year age category.  Hutchings, 65, wants to play for England in the over 60s, not over 65s, and…

Millions of older people will be able to lengthen their working lives under proposals from the equalities watchdog to scrap the compulsory retirement age of 65. It says that the current law discriminates against older people, and that extending the working lives of older people would pump £15 billion into Britain’s ailing economy. The Equalities…

Unemployed people in their 50s are finding their desperate hunt for a job ‘made worse’ by a key Government rule change, a damning report warned yesterday. Before the change, a boss could ask a worker to leave from the age of 65, known as the ‘default retirement age’, as long as they had been given…

A major new project to challenge negative stereotypes about young and older people has been launched in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. The Everyone’s Future project, which is being run by youth organisationVibe Experience and Age Concern Cardiff and The Vale, will tackle age discrimination and encourage people of all ages to form closer relationships.…

The Pensions Minister is to receive a grilling in Blackpool at this year’s Pensioners’ Parliament. Steve Webb will face a question and answer session before hundreds of delegates when he visits the resort on Wednesday. Around 1,500 members of the National Pensioners Convention are expected to travel into town for the three day event being…

Marcy Starnes’ bosses said she didn’t ‘mesh’ with the staff at the upstate New York movie theatre where she worked. She claims she was sacked because the theater wanted ‘much younger person.’ Then she met her replacement – her own 25-year-old daughter.  Ms Starnes, 52, is suing her former employer, Carmel Cinemas in Carmel, New…

An investigation by the US’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) into the Deloitte retirement age of 62 for partners could have implications for law firms. Similar investigations into law firms have led to them abandoning a mandatory retirement age for partners. The crucial issue is whether partners would be covered by the pensions legislation. They…

This is the first reported age discrimination case dealing with the thorny issue of flexible benefits schemes; in particular the implication of age-related premiums in the private medical insurance component of such a scheme.  However, the Tribunal seems to have “glossed over” the more challenging issues in this case.  As far as we are aware, this case…

Britain has one of the worst records in Europe on age discrimination, with nearly two out of five people claiming to have been shown a lack of respect because of how old they are. Only Russia, Ukraine, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have more people who feel they have been ignored or patronised because…

Roughly one in five Germans believes they have been discriminated against because of their age – with the nation’s youths feeling harder done by than its pensioners. Christine Lüders, head of Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (ADS), said the government-sponsored survey results presented Monday show that stronger laws are necessary to fight age discrimination, although it is…