The government has announced plans to scrap the default retirement age in the UK from October 2011.
John Cridland, CBI Deputy Director-General, comments on the proposals.
Age UK has called on the coalition government to do more to tackle age discrimination if it is to push through proposed benefit reforms likely to boost the number of older workers returning to the jobs market.
Figures published by a Government body have revealed that hundreds of thousands of UK workers are suffering from age discrimination.
More older workers are likely to find an "invisible wall" of ageism between them and a new job, resulting in greater numbers being stuck in long-term unemployment, charity Age UK has warned.
Removing the default retirement age could have unwelcome consequences if the issues involved are not widely debated.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) have been given an Employers Forum on Age (EFA) award for their work on tackling age discrimination in the workplace.
Former newsreader Selina Scott delivers a blistering account of her report into ageism and sexism within the BBC.
Dr. Robert Butler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning expert on aging who coined the phrase "ageism," has died in New York City, his daughter said Tuesday. He was 83.
Department of Health and NHS criticised for making too little progress on tackling key barometer of inequality.
Older women with breast cancer are having their lives put at risk by age discrimination in the NHS, experts warned yesterday.
The NHS may have to scrap controversial age limits for IVF to avoid the threat of being sued under age discrimination laws.
A majority of older people do not want to be forced to retire at 65, according to a survey.
Work and pensions secretary Ian Duncan Smith and pensions minister Steve Webb announce plans "to reinvigorate the pension landscape".
Workers will win the right to stay in their jobs beyond the age of 65 next year.
No woman is safe in television once she reaches 45, according to a Countryfile presenter who is suing the BBC for age and sex discrimination.
The Mail reports that the BBC is facing a rapidly increasing number of claims for age discrimination by its female staff.
The United States Commission on Civil Rights will hold a public briefing on Friday 11 June 2010 in Washington D.C. with a panel of experts to examine the recession, unemployment and the effects on older workers.
The Public and Commercial Services Union's victory in challenging the removal of redundancy benefits leaves entrenched a potentially age discriminatory scheme.
A leading pensions guru has said pension credits could be phased out temporarily by the new coalition Government as a compromise over state pension reform.