On Saturday 1 October the default retirement age, which gives employers the right to fire people aged 65+ purely because of their age, will be abolished.
Nigel Roberts of Politic365 argues for a global strengthening of age discrimination laws.
Juliet Morris, who was forced out of Countryfile with Miriam O'Reilly, says she has not suffered age discrimination.
A mother has accused NHS chiefs of 'age discrimination' after they refused to supply special artificial limbs to her one-year-old daughter until she is 18.
A recent study suggests nearly half of employers believe that the abolition of the DRA will have a negative impact on their business, with 22% citing the biggest practical impact being a reduced capacity to take on younger staff.
Unemployment hits young people most. The number of unemployed 18-24 year olds shot up by 77,000 to 769,000 a rise of 11%.
Twenty-five in every hundred people said they were discriminated against for their age, a recent survey research institute Tarki released to MTI on Tuesday said.
A Northern Ireland teenager has received compensation at an industrial tribunal after winning a case of age discrimination against her employer.
A worker suffered age discrimination and was unfairly dismissed from his role in a leisure centre because his employer wanted to avoid incurring pension costs after he turned 50.
IPPR suggest that one of the elements hidden in the official figure is this age discrimination evident during the recession. The risk is that older people who have been out of work for this long stand little chance of ever working again.
Staff over the age of 50 were told their services were no longer required with “immediate effect” because they did not meet the criteria required to continue in jobs they have done for years.
The average award for age discrimination claims has risen by nearly £20,000 since last year, bringing the average to nearly three times that in 2009/10, according to Tribunal Service statistics.
Sonia Arrison, author of a new book on longevity, explains how scientific advances are making radical life expansion - to age 150 and beyond - a possibility, and what it could mean for human existence.
Age discrimination is rampant - 75% of job adverts specify an age limit.
A woman won £6,000 compensation for age discrimination. Then three weeks later got fired. She then won a further £25,000 in a victimisation claim.
A 61-year-old man who claims he was fired from his Jones Beach lifeguard job of 40 years because he refused to wear a Speedo for the yearly swim test is suing the state of New York for age discrimination.
Jacob Lazada of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) recently gave a speech arguing for the creation of an international human rights instrument.
Age diversity promotes ill-will between workers in organisations that leads to an unhappy workplace and less productivity, according to a new academic study.
The Saga Quality of Life Index has plummeted for the third time in a row, as multiple woes hit the over 50s.
According to psychologist Becca Levy, PhD, assistant professor of public health at Yale University, age discrimination and negative stereotypes can shorten life span by 7.5 years.