Police are to push ahead with plans to force officers with 30 years or more service into early retirement, despite opposition from county officials and fears over breaching age discrimination legislation.
A report published by the National Centre for Social Research found young people were more likely to report age discrimination over the past year. Researchers claim the age of austerity may entrench ageism and “deepen the fault lines” between generations.
Companies face "huge uncertainty" and a greater risk of being taken to employment tribunals with expensive age discrimination claims if the UK government does not delay planned changes to the retirement age, the CBI claimed today.
Aviva’s quarterly Real Retirement Report finds that almost a third of pensioners claimed that they were pushed into retiring earlier than they would have liked by their employer, highlighting the levels of age discrimination still evident in the workplace.
Redundant cabin crew are taking on budget airline easyJet over claims of unfair dismissal and age discrimination. The group of 10 former senior flight attendants based at Newcastle International Airport all got the axe last December.
The chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee has said it is unfair that online customers get the best gas and electricity deals and may be ageist and age discrimination.
The anti-ageism watchdog that fights age discrimination in the workplace employs FEWER older people than most of the firms it monitors, a study revealed yesterday.
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".