Employees could keep a job into their 70s and 80s under Harriet Harman's plan to scrap forced retirement.
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Employees could keep a job into their 70s and 80s under Harriet Harman's plan to scrap forced retirement.
The state pension should be raise to £130 a week, according to the first manifesto of its kind from Saga which calls for an end to age discrimination.
A new academic report, co published by The Age and Employment Network (TAEN) explores the reflections, projections and interpretations of work and career to date of people approaching 60.
The Social Market Foundation has warned that the primary focus on the rise in youth unemployment is misguided and excessive because it leads to policy responses that concentrate on the young to the exclusion of other unemployed people.
Equalities minister warns that ageism within the corporation is annoying its viewers.
SAGA has successfully lobbied for an specific exemption from the Equality Bill to cover holidays. The Equality Bill, currently before the House of Lords, will prohibit age discrimination in the provision of goods and services.
Elderly patients are being left humiliated and distressed by delays when they call for assistance on hospital wards, a new survey shows.
Fifteen female international cabin crew who are alleging age and race discrimination on the part of their former employer, British Airways, will have their case heard today before the Employment Appeals Tribunal.
More than 70% of older workers now plan to work beyond the state retirement age.
Lawyers are joining forces to try and combat a spate of compensation claims from 'serial' litigants said to be capable of earning up to £50,000 a year from "fake" claims based on alleged breaches of age discrimination legislation.
To prepare health and social care services for new anti-age discrimination laws, the Government is calling for peoples’ views on the likely implications.
Former ITV newsreader Liza Aziz claims that she suffered age discrimination after being replaced by "four blondes in their twenties and thirties".
Why are member states discriminating against the anti-discrimination directive? Nicholas Beger, Director of Amnesty International's EU Office, comments on a proposals for new EU legislation to combat discrimination.
Europe's regions have a key role to play in ensuring that anti age discrimination legislation is effectively implemented, West Midlands MEP Liz Lynne has said.
Only a third of workers think that they will work until they are over 65 and just one in ten believes they will still be working in their 70s.
Around one in six people in Europe claim to have personally experienced discrimination in the past year, according to a new opinion survey released by the European Commission today.
Andy Burnham, the health secretary, today admitted that age discrimination in the NHS exists and needs to be stamped out.
The state pension age should rise to 70 as soon as "reasonably practical", company directors have argued.
Contract compliance is working well as an instrument of social reform and divertsity promotion but not well enough to extend its use to combat age discrimination.
The new Supreme Court risks wasting some of its best talent unless the judges' retirement age is raised to 75, the chamber's head said yesterday.