What is the correct approach to take when identifying comparators in an age discrimination claim? The Court of Appeal has decided.
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Redundancy
Mr Shiret, a 55 year old banker, was made redundant but his 35 year old colleague kept his job. Was this age discrimination?
An appeal over a "shambolic" redundancy selection process fails. A terrible process does not mean that it is age discrimination.
This case looks at differences in severance payments on voluntary redundancy in the Civil Service between younger and older leavers.
A provision which reduced compensation for workers aged over 54 by taking into account the earliest date from which they could receive a state pension, was not unlawful age discrimination.
Discriminatory they were - describing someone as "Yoda" was age discrimination
A cost cutting exercise was a shambles, but wasn't age discrimination.
Bombardier had unlawfully discriminated against an older PA, but had not harassed her.
An Employment Tribunal upheld an age discrimination claim against Barnardo's.
Court of Appeal decides not to move away from "costs plus" legal test, but the decision broadens its application.
The EAT rules that indirect age discrimination in a cost based selection procedure was justified.
A case in relation to redundancy payments.
An employee who was unfairly dismissed, had not been subjected to age discrimination.
A decision to dismiss a 49 year old three months before his 50th birthday in order to avoid additional pension costs was direct age discrimination.
A claimant lost an age discrimination claim which was based on the premise that the whole of the advertising industry is ageist.
In this case, an ET decides that a legal adviser salary band was not indirectly age discriminatory.
In this ongoing claim, the EAT has indicated that costs alone should be able to justify age discrimination.
The Court of Appeal rules that a partnership of solicitors can force partners to retire at 65.
Applying a cap to payments under a redundancy scheme to ensure that employees close to pension age do not receive a windfall can be justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.
This ET decision deals with the issue of "windfall" payments to employees.