Although the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is widening the scheme which places equality and diversity requirements on its suppliers, ‘age’ is not going to be one of the diversity strands covered – at least for the time being. The initial Race Equality Procurement Pilots were introduced in 2006 to encourage procurers in three…

IT has been 24 years since she fronted an evening news bulletin on BBC1, but this weekend saw Julia Somerville return to prime time TV – at the age of 63. The BBC has responded to accusations of ageism by recruiting the veteran anchor to join its team of Saturday evening presenters on the Weekend…

Half of today’s children will live until the age of 103, meaning people will have to work for longer to support themselves, a major inquiry has concluded. The rapidly-rising older population will have to learn to get by without relying on the help of young taxpayers, according to the report. The House of Lords study…

A war of words erupted in the Irish presidential contest last night as veteran broadcaster Gay Byrne warned Independent candidate Sean Gallagher about making ageist comments. Mr Gallagher denied saying Byrne (77), was too old to be Irish President – but said the job required energy and drive. The Irish Dragons’ Den star trails Labour’s…

Williams, who co-hosted BBC Breakfast and is about to join Radio 4, said she disagreed with female presenters being handed jobs merely to fill quotas. “I’m against tokenism – women shouldn’t be on TV because of their age, but because of their experience,” she told Radio Times. The BBC has faced accusations of ageism since…

Mr Woodcock was Chief Executive of North Cumbria PCT. North Cumbria PCT and several other trusts were merging to form Cumbria PCT and Mr Woodcock’s position was therefore at risk of redundancy. He was formally informed of this on 4 September 2006 and a search made for alternative employment. However by March 2007, no suitable…

The Daily News has been slapped with another age discrimination suit by one of its employees on the photo desk. David Burns, a picture editor at the News since 2010, is taking the tabloid to court for “discriminatory and retaliatory practices,” alleging specifically that he was “harassed and overlooked for promotions based on his age…

Companies face “huge uncertainty” and a greater risk of being taken to employment tribunals if the UK government does not delay planned changes to the retirement age, the CBI claimed today.The business group said that scrapping the so-called Default Retirement Age (DRA) from April would create “unintended consequences”, and pleaded for more “legal clarity” on…

A mother has accused NHS chiefs of ‘age discrimination’ after they refused to supply special artificial limbs to her one-year-old daughter until she is 18. Poppy Pickford has a severely shortened right arm and would benefit from a flexible silicone limb.  The NHS has provided the youngster with a more basic PVC limb that is…

“Vacancy for general director – under the age of 40 … head of sales department – under the age of 35…office-manager – under the age of 30…” On the recruitment website Superjob.ru, 54 percent of the jobs advertised include age as a criterion for potential candidates. Yevgenia Shatilova, project manager at Rabota.ru says age preferences…