The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to advance the Protecting Older Americans Act of 2023, a bipartisan legislation aimed at safeguarding older workers from workplace discrimination by eradicating forced arbitration. At present, companies can impose mandatory arbitration on employees, a practice that bars those facing age discrimination from bringing their grievances to court, instead funnelling…
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A 14-year old schoolgirl was the victim of direct age discrimination when she was fired for being “too young”. It is thought that Hazel Cassidy is to be the youngest person in the UK to win an age discrimination claim. Facts Hazel Cassidy had just turned 14 years old when she applied for a Saturday…
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The government introduced new judicial pension arrangements through the Judicial Pensions Regulations 2015, which formed the New Judicial Pension Scheme (NJPS). All serving judges were transferred into the NJPS, which provided less valuable retirement benefits. However, under transitional provisions, serving judges who were within 10 years of normal pension age on 1 April 2012 were…
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A big step against age discrimination was taken today after Nigerian lawmakers moved to ban age limits for Government employment. We reported last year on the passage of an age discrimination bill in Nigeria. This week, the bill was finally passed. The House of Representatives in Nigeria today approved banning age discrimination against job seekers…
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This page contains information on the main pieces of age discrimination, as well as other related documents. Scroll down or use the links immediately below to navigate. UK age discrimination law The Age Discrimination Act There is no such thing as this in the UK and there never has been. This mistake is often repeated in…
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Dr Odar worked for Baxter Deutschland Gmbh (“Baxter”). Baxter operated a redundancy scheme which implemented German law (the AGG). The formula for calculating redundancy compensation for workers covered by this scheme was based on their age, length of service and gross monthly pay. A special formula was applied to workers over 54 years old. This…
