It’s been nearly a year since age discrimination legislation was introduced, but many businesses are still struggling to deal with it. What’s the latest news?
Published 20.09.2007
Purple Parking has been ordered to pay 21 ex-employees £78,000 each for acts of age-related discrimination. It transpires that it made one particularly daft error. So where did it go wrong?
Published 09.04.2014
According to recent research, age is rapidly becoming the main discrimination-related grievance amongst UK employees. So what are the key risk areas that you should be aware of?
Published 30.10.2008
On October 1, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations come into force, adding to a long list of groups who cannot be discriminated against. In the first of a series of articles we look at what you
need to do now.
Published 21.09.2006
The default retirement age has now been consigned to the legal history books, so you can no longer forcibly dismiss someone because they’ve reached 65. But what about your application procedure? Must
anything change here?
Published 07.11.2011
An older person has applied for a job but their skills and experience far exceed your requirements. Can you reject them simply on the basis that they are overqualified or is that asking for trouble?
Published 03.11.2016
An employee in his 50s, who was described as “being stuck in his ways” and asked to dress up as Santa, has lost his age discrimination claim. Does that mean that it’s OK to make age-related
references?
Published 23.04.2015
An employer has been ordered to pay a former employee £900 because a manager asked her if she had Alzheimer’s when she made an administrative error. Why did the tribunal find that this question
amounted to age discrimination?
Published 15.01.2021
The new age regulations are very similar to other discrimination legislation in the type of treatment that’s prohibited, such as harassment. What type of behaviour could lead to a claim and how can
you defend against it?
Published 02.11.2006