Welcome to agediscrimination.info

Re-launched and updated to co-incide with the second anniversary of the age regulations, this site is a one-stop source of information to employers, journalists and others interested in age discrimination both in the UK and overseas. As well as providing a wealth of data and guidance on the age legislation, it includes a comprehensive summary of international age discrimination laws provided by law firms from the Ius Laboris international employment law alliance.

Lewis Silkin and Sacker & Partners have also produced a book on age discrimination (an 'excellent analysis of age discrimination legislation' - Michael Rubenstein, Equal Opportunities Review, 1 October 2008). For more information and details on how to order your copy click here.

Over time the site will feature important legal cases which will help define the scope of age discrimination laws in the UK. If you have any suggestions or contributions for the site please contact us.

CASES

For reports of key cases with relevance for age discrimination, click here. This will be updated with new cases as they are decided.

We would like to hear from anyone involved in cases under the new age laws, especially where these may not be widely reported.

INTERNATIONAL

Some member states have only recently implemented the age strand of the Directive and many non-EU countries have longstanding anti-ageism laws. For details of age discrimination legislation around the world, click here for more.

NEWS

Equality Bill: Making it work

On Monday 29th June 2009, a consultation document setting out how policy proposals for exceptions from the age discrimination ban are being developed was published.

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Equality Bill

The Equality Bill was introduced into the House of Commons in April. It contains a number of measures intended to combat age discrimination.

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Implications of Rolls Royce v Unite

The Court of Appeal recently handed down Rolls Royce v Unite in which the legality of length of service criterion as part of a redundancy selection matrix was considered.

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