Age discrimination in the media doesn’t stop with humans. Our collective obsession with youth extends to the animal world. Considering how much of the internet is given over to the extreme cuteness of kittens, how often do you click on images of elderly cats or glaucomic dogs at the tail end of their lives? How…
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The Prince of Wales’s charity for young unemployed people has warned the UK is developing a “youth underclass”. A survey for the Prince’s Trust of more than 2,300 people aged 16-24 suggested those from deprived backgrounds were three times more likely to say they will “end up on benefits”. The trust blamed an “aspiration gap”…
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Viewing entries in Scoop Independent News Changes signalled to the student loan scheme in New Zealand Budget will discriminate against older age people and almost certainly breach human rights and age discrimination law, the NZ Green Party said recently.
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Union leaders are demanding urgent talks with Staffordshire Police Authority after a long-running pay dispute failed to be resolved. Authority members had thought the threat of legal claims for sex and age discrimination was over after last week authorising a pay rise for 280 of the force’s 1,168 police staff. It follows a decision to…
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Around 40 per cent of those born between April 6 1953 and April 5 1960 will be forced to work for an extra year when the state pension age rises to 66 – a change due to come into force by April 2020. These people will not be in a position to live off their…
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Donald Steele, who has died aged 76, was a leading campaigner for improvements in social policy for older people. From 1993 onwards, Don was director of social policy for the Association of Retired and People over 50 (ARP/O50), and, in 2007, became the leader and chairman of the Friendship Centre Federation. As a campaigner with…
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Older teachers feel they are being pushed aside and treated unfairly, a teachers’ conference is to be told. A survey from the NASUWT union suggests one in five older teachers have faced discrimination because of their age. Rather than having their experience valued, older teachers complain they are being “marginalised”. “Abuse on the grounds of…
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Mr Fischer announced over the weekend that he was throwing his hat into the ring, challenging frontrunner Christine Lagarde, France’s finance minister, and Mexico’s central bank governor Agustin Carstens. Mr Fischer is a well-liked former deputy head of the IMF. “One problem is his age. Fischer is 67, which is two years older than the…
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Viewing entries in BBC News A Church of Ireland rector has withdrawn an industrial tribunal claim alleging age discrimination, the day before the hearing was due to start. The Reverend John Hemphill has been suspended from his ministry in Ballyhalbert, County Down, since 2009. More than 2,000 of the country’s most experienced police officers could…
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The Saga Quality of Life Index has plummeted for the third time in a row, as multiple woes hit the over 50s. It means things have got steadily worse for the last nine months. But why have things got so bad, and what is causing the summer of discontent?
