A 64-year-old ground worker is seeking compensation for age discrimination and constructive unfair dismissal after complaining a Kidderminster building and civil engineering firm wanted to “get rid of him” by stopping his transport to work.
A new breed of 'grey panthers' has emerged - the phrase refers to those women who embrace their full heads of grey hair while maintaining high-climbing careers.
Employers could be sued under age discrimination laws for taking part in Nick Clegg’s £1 billion scheme to get young people jobs, the Government’s own official guidance has warned.
Ten years on from her Changing Rooms heyday, Carol Smillie is beginning to feel frozen out from the industry.
Before her return, Miriam O'Reilly said she was looking forward to returning to work for the corporation.
A TV weatherman has sued CBS broadcasting for sex and age discrimination claiming his job applications were ignored because he isn't a 20-something woman.
Former newsreader Anna Ford has accused the BBC of "tokenism" in the debate over ageism on television.
Age discrimination against older workers is not nearly as widespread as the community believes, a new survey of over 3,000 workers shows.
British companies will need to retain their ageing talent as the number of people retiring over the next ten years may outnumber the number of people finishing education.
Pensioners holidaying abroad this summer face being hit by annual increases of up to 90 per cent in the cost of their travel insurance.
As Age UK survey finds 60% of UK thinks age discrimination is widespread, a mass lobby of Parliament on Tuesday will aim to get the Government to reform and boost funding for social care.
Rowan Atkinson has written to the Guardian, following up on some of the controversy he caused last week.
Two of Northern Ireland's finance minister Sammy Wilson’s most senior officials yesterday claimed in public that they are being subjected to age discrimination by his department.
Patronising elderly people in hospitals or care homes should be treated as severely as racist or sexist abuse, a landmark report on dignity for older people says today.
A ban on age discrimination in goods and services has been shelved by ministers, leaving millions of elderly at risk of inferior hospital treatment and rip off insurance.
The BBC should have been free to drop Miriam O'Reilly from Countryfile without attracting any accusations of age discrimination, according to comedian Rowan Atkinson.
He said that the landmark age discrimination claim brought by Miriam O'Reilly, 54, had been a wake up call for the BBC.
Town halls are guilty of ‘age discrimination’ because they are under-funding vital services for the elderly by at least £500million a year, a report says today.
Roughly one in five Germans believes they have been discriminated against because of their age – with the nation's youths feeling harder done by than its pensioners.
He told Dennis Skinner people should not visit the Natural History Museum to see the ancient beasts, but "come to the House of Commons" instead.