In America, a parent is filing an age discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against the Mendon-Upton Regional School District for denying his sixth-grade daughter access to the middle school track team.
Age discrimination in the media doesn't stop with humans. Our collective obsession with youth extends to the animal world. Isa Leshko has set out to document old age in the animal kingdom with a series of beautiful photographs entitled Elderly Animals.
"The search for travel cover was very frustrating," says marathon runner Amanda Wilkins. "I'm in good health and have run six marathons, the last just two years ago, so I'm fit and well. I felt I was being discriminated against because of my age."
The Ministry of Employment and Labor said 98 cases, or 2.2 percent, out of 4,381 job advertisements posted on online job sites from March 23 to April 6 contained requirements based on age discrimination.
The boss of Worcester-based-Temple Bar says that the FSA's retail distribution review jeopardises The Equality Bill, which will makes age discrimination unlawful in the provision of products and services in 2012, as it disadvantages older IFAs.
Former Countryfile presenter Miriam O'Reilly is to return to BBC1 for the first time since winning her age discrimination case against the corporation as one of the faces of a daytime Crimewatch spin-off show.
TAEN has joined forces with Saga to produce two pieces of research - one for employers, one for employees. TAEN believes retirement will gradually cease to be a sudden event occurring on a pre-ordained date for all individuals.
The paper draws on findings from a two-year, nationwide, participative study of age discrimination in the United Kingdom, the Research on Age Discrimination (RoAD) project," researchers in Manchester, United Kingdom report.
A New York casino is sued for age discrimination by 7 fired cocktail waitresses who say the skin-revealing new outfits that casino cocktail waitresses must wear have cost 15 of them their jobs, because middle-aged servers don’t look sexy enough in them.
Carole Walker was one of four 50+ female news presenters taken on by the BBC amid controversy over the sacking of Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips, now 67, and Countryfile presenter Miriam O'Reilly, 54, who later won an age discrimination case.
Organisations will no longer be able to give employees notice of retirement under DRA provisions and will need to objectively justify any compulsory retirement age still in place to avoid age discrimination claims.
A Church of Ireland rector has withdrawn an industrial tribunal claim alleging age discrimination, the day before the hearing was due to start. The Reverend John Hemphill has been suspended from his ministry in Ballyhalbert, County Down, since 2009.
Cattrall reportedly went on a rant about what she sees as age discrimination in Hollywood against older actresses. "Ask me about being a woman," Cattrall said. "Do you know what it's like to be 54 and marginalized? It doesn't get easier as you get older."
As she prepares to begin her new show on Radio 2, Jo Whiley has hit out at claims she’s the latest high-profile presenter to fall victim to ageism and age discrimination at the BBC.
The 58-year-old, who achieved fame while still a teenager playing Roberta in the film The Railway Children in 1970, said older women should be able to continue working in TV. The actress joins the growing critique of age discrimination in the media.
The British Youth Council (BYC) has been selected to become part of the European Youth Forum’s expert group on Votes at 16. The European Youth Forum is an independent, democratic, youth-led platform, representing 98 National Youth Councils from the EU.
In order to hire more Indian staff in the U.S. for India's top outsourcing companies, allegations have come up stating the visa misuse and age discrimination for the recruitment which has become a negative backlash which has to be dealt with.
The Los Angeles Clippers's former general manager Elgin Baylor sued the NBA team alleging age discrimination as he was forced out of the job he held for 22 years. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury rejected Baylor's claim of age discrimination.
A restaurant manager at the five-star hotel chain was told to get rid of older staff as bosses wanted young girls who were sexy, blonde and wore mini-skirts, a tribunal heard yesterday. The age discrimination case continues.
Research by the organisation, which looked at the views of 2,000 people, found that one in six people had been discriminated against because of their age.