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The magnificent P D James admitted that she had been troubled by age discrimination.
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A YouGov survey has found that 59 per cent of UK citizens over the age of 55 believe that age is a "major barrier" to employment.
As a recent shows 60% of the elderly report facing age discrimination, Peta Todd's experience reveals the loneliness and invisibility of the elderly.
The mother of 24 year old Olympic gold medallist swimmer Rhiannon Jeffrey threatens an age discrimination claim against the parents of her daughter's 17 year old boyfriend.
The study by online mentoring service FutureYou found revealed some startling statistics in addition to age discrimination, including that 69% believe their talent is being thrown away.
Did you know that if you are under 25 and single the government does not treat you as a fully grown adult when it comes to housing benefit?
A woman is claiming that was fired over her refusal to dye her silver locks.
This article from the Economist Times exposes age discrimination in employment in India.
A charity founded by The Prince of Wales claims that ageist attitudes and age discrimination in the UK are stopping many older people contributing towards the British economy.
The 65-year-old was suspended earlier this year.
People over 55 are nearly twice as likely to launch startups in "high growth" industries.
Journalist David Horsfeld comments on age discrimination in the insurance industry after the Test-Achats decision.
The Age and Employment Network (TAEN) has expressed concern over a sharp rise in the number of age discrimination claims and warns the figure is likely to continue rising.
A federal judge threw out an age discrimination claim brought by a United States Soccer Federation referee.
At first glance there would seem to be few similarities between Jilly Cooper, Vivienne Westwood, and Professor Richard Dawkins. And that, so the charity WRVS says, is the point of its report on the 66 best examples in the UK of men and women over 66.
From the US: calling someone an "old man" was not enough to get an age discrimination claim to trial
As a general rule, when a claimant in an age discrimination case alleges that a decision maker frequently referred to him as an "old man," and the claimant was replaced by a younger employee, the plaintiff probably has a pretty decent case. At the very least, the judge is going to let the case go to trial. Generally speaking...
But what if the claimant got fired the day after he allowed a truck carrying a 70-feet steel beam to slide 15 feet into his employer's wall, knocking the wall down? And what if customers had complained about the claimant's job performance?
And what if the claimant admitted that he was excessively chatty, disrupted other employees, and slept on the job?
Will the "old man" comments and the fact that he was replaced by someone younger be enough to defeat the employer's summary judgment motion?
Not according to the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In Ritchie v. Industrial Steel, Inc., Case No. 10-10945 (11 th Cir. May 19, 2011), the court, faced with the above facts, affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to the employer.
The court noted that the claimant failed to show that the age-related comments were related to the decision to terminate his employment; thus, they were not direct evidence of discrimination.
And, the claimant failed to show circumstantial evidence of discrimination because he could not demonstrate that the employer's explanation that he was terminated for performance-related reasons was pretextual.
The Ritchie case serves as a reminder to employment law practitioners to evaluate all the facts of a case before making a prediction about the outcome. Discriminatory comments by decision makers are never good facts for an employer.
But sometimes, an employee's poor performance is so apparent and indisputable that even discriminatory comments by the decision makers are not enough to get the case to a jury (US discrimination cases have trials by jury, rather than the judge or tribunal panel used in the UK).
In other words, when an employee in the US is terminated after he accidentally knocks down his employer's wall, he's got a tough row to hoe to prove discrimination. Generally speaking...
The Government and health watchdogs have devised a series of plans to tackle the age discrimination problem.
The NHS treats elderly patients with broken hips as a "low priority", a Government watchdog has said.