The insurance industry is discriminating against older people with half of motor insurers refusing to offer quotes to people aged over 80, a charity has said.
A serial litigant is believed to have earned thousands of pounds by bombarding employers with claims of ageism simply because they used the words “school leaver” or “recent graduate” in job advertisements.
An employment tribunal condemned the Prison Service for discriminating against a 22 year old woman.
A BBC presenter who was dropped from the corporation’s rural affairs programme along with other women in their forties and fifties has become the first broadcaster to sue the BBC for age discrimination.
The European Commission on Thursday sent a letter of formal notice to Greece calling it to comply with European Court ruling concerning equality of retirement age between men-women.
Liberal Democrat Euro MP, Liz Lynne, a long-time campaigner against age discrimination, has welcomed a call by the Equality Commission to abolish compulsory retirement ages.
Merged charity rejects government's case for limiting scope of discrimination ban.
Car insurance quotes are being denied to those over 80 years old, Age Concern and Help the Aged has discovered in new research.
Holiday companies and insurance firms will be able to avoid a ban on age discrimination in goods and services, the Government has announced.
Millions of older people will be able to lengthen their working lives under proposals from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to scrap the compulsory retirement age of 65.
Older workers have fared relatively well during this recession. That’s just as well, because with dwindling pension pots and increased life expectancy, there will soon be far more of them. But are organisations prepared for more people working longer?
A policy of health testing older taxi drivers in Aberdeen could be revoked because of discrimination fears.
Gurkha veterans fail in test case claiming the MoD discriminated against them on grounds of nationality and age.
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.