The latest UK and international age discrimination news from around the web.
West Midlands Police has paid out more than £2.5 million to 207 officers who were forced into early retirement in a scheme which has since been declared unlawful age discrimination.
British soldiers have to serve until age 22 regardless of their joining age: a 16-year-old recruit must serve six years and a 17-year-old five years. Adults just serve minimum 4 years.
Professor Seppo Koskinen cautions that age discrimination may increase as the official retirement age in Finland is raised, not all of the statistics bear out a bias against older employees.
Campaigners are calling on Government to clarify when it will fulfil its promise to outlaw age discrimination in the workplace.
The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace filed age discrimination complaints against the aerospace giant.
A former pensions advisor to Tony Blair has been appointed as the Government's new 'Older Workers' Champion', amid growing concern over the number of over 50s left on the scrap heap.
The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales has strongly welcomed the introduction of a Welsh Declaration of the Rights of Older People, which will protect and enhance the rights of older people across Wales.
An organisation looking after the welfare of overseas Filipino workers calls on Congress to ban age discrimination in workplaces nationwide.
A pensioner has claimed she was denied surgery after being automatically deemed "unfit" because she was over 70. Pat Kelso from County Fermanagh said she needed a hip operation in 2012 but there was a 68-week waiting list in the Western Health Trust area.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used remarks at a women's leadership conference in Boston to push to end age discrimination.
Michael Buerk criticises television presenters who complain of ageism, arguing those given jobs 'because they look nice' cannot protest when they lose them.
Bill going through Philippine House of Representatives will impose up to 1 years imprisonment for age discrimination.
Britain’s biggest airport car parking company, Purple Parking, has admitted age discrimination against its workers after it sacked dozens of them for being too old.
In what an attorney says is the largest award of its kind in Los Angeles legal history, a 66-year-old man was awarded $26 million by a jury that found he was discriminated against and harassed based upon his age by his supervising managers at Staples.
Employment tribunal rules it was age discrimination for chief constables to force officers' retirement through use of police regulations.
According to Nicholas Parsons, women have no reason to complain about age discrimination.
Younger bosses who nag older workers to take redundancies, tell them they're too old to receive training or deny them promotion are forcing thousands into early retirement.
Most people believe having an older colleague has a positive effect on the workplace, often because they can be good role models or mentors, a new study has shown.
The former head of Grampian's fire service has lost an age discrimination case, the BBC Scotland news website has learned.
New data suggest ageism rife in Nethlerlands.
