LATEST AGE DISCRIMINATION CASES — age discrimination

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Employers can force retirement only if they have aims of a “public interest nature”. Lady Hale said, “all businesses will now have to give careful consideration to what, if any, mandatory retirement rules can be justified”.

Comment

The Supreme Court held that an employer was guilty of indirect age discrimination by making attainment of a higher pay grade dependent on having a law degree.