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Gregory v Petro Trace Ltd
October 10, 2023
The Employment Tribunal found that age was a motivating factor in an employee’s dismissal despite attempts to cast it as performance-related or redundancy.
Palladino v Reed in Partnership
August 3, 2023
It wasn’t age discrimination when younger colleagues said they wanted to go “clubbing” for a work Christmas party.
Pipe v Coventry University
May 18, 2023
An employer’s progression policy could have disadvantaged older workers by asking for a PHD or equivalency, but it was justified. The age discrimination claim in this case would have failed anyway because there were no available promotion opportunities.
Cook v Gentoo Group Ltd
February 15, 2023
An Employment Tribunal must reconsider its decision that a rushed redundancy process was not direct age discrimination.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust v Matar
January 24, 2023
A finding of direct age discrimination was upheld because an NHS Trust had made age-related assumptions about a locum consultant’s willingness to apply for a specialist register based on his retirement plans.
Dadhania v SAP (UK) Ltd
January 19, 2023
A 61-year-old account manager was unfairly constructively dismissed after being put on a performance improvement plan without warning, but the majority of the Tribunal concluded there was no age discrimination.
McGonagle v Jaguar Land Rover Limited
November 22, 2022
The EAT required a Tribunal to reconsider its finding that direct age discrimination in access to a car lease scheme was justified, because they took account of an issue that had not been argued by the parties.
VT v Ministero dell’Interno
November 17, 2022
Italian legislation which fixed a maximum age limit of 30 for participation in a competition to recruit police commissioners was age discrimination that could not be justified, and so was incompatible with EU law.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Beattie
August 9, 2023
After Brexit, courts cannot disapply UK law on the basis of its incompatibility with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Beattie & Others
October 27, 2022
An exception from age discrimination for periods of pensionable service prior to 1 December 2006 was potentially not compatible with EU law, but could only be set aside for pensioners who had made a claim before 31 December 2020.
Bathgate v Technip UK Ltd
October 7, 2022
A settlement agreement could not cover age discrimination claims that had not arisen at the time it was signed.
Kershaw v Tayside Health Board
July 26, 2022
An oral surgeon who had qualified before 1993 and did not have a vocational training number required for an NHS list number had not been discriminated against as, on the facts, it was her specialism which debarred her from obtaining the number, rather than her age.
Pelter v Buro Four Project Services Limited
July 14, 2022
The EAT held that it was not direct age discrimination for PHI payments to be stopped when an employee turned 65, despite the state pension age being 66.
Citibank NA v Kirk
July 12, 2022
The Employment Tribunal was required to reconsider parts of a decision on age discrimination after not properly considering the employer’s evidence.
Ligebehandlingsnævnet v HK/Danmark and HK/Privat
June 2, 2022
The ECJ has ruled that an age restriction on eligibility for election to the position of sector convenor in a workers’ organisation is covered by the Equal Treatment Framework Directive.
Garcia v British Airways Plc
January 25, 2022
The EAT ruled that an age discrimination claim was rightly struck out for having no reasonable prospects of success.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and others v Hughes and others
July 19, 2021
A cap on pension compensation following employer insolvency was unlawful age discrimination.
Dopson v Stag Publications Ltd
August 2, 2023
Referring to an employee as a “grandmother” in a magazine review was less favourable treatment on grounds of age but the claim had been brought out of time.
Cassidy v Daimler Foundation
June 25, 2021
A 14-year-old schoolgirl who was sacked for being “too young” has won an age discrimination claim.