Age discrimination in the NHS: age, sex and wealth all affect how likely your GP is to refer you for a specialist appointment, a new study has concluded.
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Age discrimination in the NHS: age, sex and wealth all affect how likely your GP is to refer you for a specialist appointment, a new study has concluded.
Thirty six years after starting to play amateur rugby, a 55-year-old player says being forced to retire on his birthday due to Welsh Rugby Union insurance rules is age discrimination.
New research by Anchor, the country's largest not-for-profit provider of care and accommodation for older people, shows age discrimination is rampant in the media.
As employers across the country start to plan for the abolition of the Default Retirement Age, bosses at Longleat Estate have sparked outrage by firing every employee aged over 65. Union leaders have condemned the move as ageist and age discrimination.
A written judgment in Miriam O'Reilly's age discrimination case is expected either just before or after Christmas.
Age Cymru is demanding that funding is ring-fenced to ensure that the Welsh Assembly Government’s strategy to tackle pensioner poverty, ill-health and age discrimination can be put into action.
Former BBC One controller Jay Hunt has denied she hates women of a certain age at the tribunal of Miriam O'Reilly who is seeking compensation for alleged sex and age discrimination.
Age is just a number—but age discrimination is rampant in Hollywood and for celebrities, age has a big influence on their paychecks.
In the US, a former Mayer Brown employee says that she was illegally fired by the firm because of unlawful age discrimination.
Former Countryfile presenter Charlotte Smith was dropped from the show because she was not "young and pretty" enough to pass the primetime test, a tribunal heard today.
When 55-year-old Stephen Clee came on for his local rugby club when one of its players was forced to sit out, he proved that age doesn't matter. But now he is at the centre of an age discrimination row after being told he is "too old" to play.
Workers being made redundant in their fifties and early sixties face the prospect of unwanted early retirement as Scotland stands on the brink of a new surge in unemployment.
Surrey Police has become the first force in England to make some officers with more than 30 years service retire in a bid to cut costs, but the Age and Employment Network said police plans for forced retirement amounted to "naked ageism".
The presenter, 53, is suing the broadcaster for sex and age discrimination after losing her job when the show was moved to a prime-time slot.
Employers must formalise their flexible retirement policies ahead of the abolition of the default retirement age or risk breaching age discrimination laws, JLT Benefit Solutions warns.
Proposed changes to pensions and retirement rules will make it more difficult for smaller firms to create jobs, according to the Forum of Private Business.
Heidi Klum's departure from Victoria's Secret brings up the question of age in the modeling industry: how old is too old to model?
Men and the elderly will be among the key beneficiaries under a strengthening of Australia's age discrimination laws.
With the default retirement age soon to be a relic of the past, DeeDee Doke discovers that the greater battle is to change both workers’ and employers’ attitudes to age and prevent age discrimination.
People aged over 50 are spending an increasingly large proportion of their income on basic items such as fuel and food, according to a new study.