“The Government will scrap the law allowing organisations to force workers to retire at 65 but companies will find it easier than ever to run their own compulsory retirement schemes in the wake of a Court of Appeal ruling yesterday, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th July 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“A Kent lawyer who sued his own firm of solicitors when he was made to stop work at 65 has lost his discrimination case at the Court of Appeal.”
BBC News, 29th July 2010
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“Responses to Ministry of Justice consultation.”
Judiciary of England of Wales, 21st July 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The government is pressing ahead with Labour legislation which could require employers to disclose whether they pay women as much as men.”
BBC News, 2nd July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The requirement of a law degree for eligibility for the highest pay grade as a police legal adviser did not amount to discrimination against those aged over 60.”
WLR Daily, 28th April 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“People should be allowed to work beyond the age of 65 and with more flexible hours, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said.”
BBC News, 25th January 2010
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“Europe’s top court has said that some employers can stop people as young as 30 from applying for some jobs because they are too old. UK Employment Tribunals will have to take account of the ruling in age discrimination cases, an expert said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st January 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Ageism within the NHS and social care is set to be made illegal after a review of the treatment of older people found discrimination was ‘rooted’ in the attitudes of staff and organisations.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Campaigners fighting to end the mandatory retirement age have pinned their hopes on a Government review of the law after losing a key legal battle in the courts.”
The Independent, 25th September 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Government faces overwhelming calls to scrap the compulsory retirement age of 65 after a High Court judge ruled today that in the current economic climate it was likely to be unlawful.”
The Times, 25th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Related link: Timeline: the battle against enforced retirement
“A judgement on whether it is legal for UK employers to force workers to retire at the age of 65 is expected later.”
BBC News, 25th September 2009
Source: www.bb.co.uk
“Financial services and insurance companies will have to justify any unfavourable treatment of older people while car hire companies will not be allowed to refuse to serve old people under new proposals drawn up by the Government.”
OUT-LAW.com, 1st July 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Rolls Royce plc v Unite the Union
Court of Appeal
“Length of service was a lawful criterion for selection for redundancy since it achieved a legitimate aim by a proportionate means.”
The Times, 27th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Rolls Royce plc v Unite the Union [2009] EWCA Civ 387
“A length of service criterion within the selection matrix for redundancy selection, contained in collective agreements between a company and a workers’ union, was not in breach of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, in that the inclusion of the criterion was a ‘proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim’ within reg 3(1)(b).”
WLR Daily, 19th May 2009
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“Companies can take employees’ length of service in to consideration when choosing who should be made redundant, the Court of Appeal said today, in a ruling that will protect older workers in the current downturn.”
The Times, 14th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An elderly waiter is suing the hotel where he worked for more than £100,000 after they called time on his career.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A senior NHS manager could be paid nearly £500,000 in compensation after she was refused a new job at the age of 56.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“National rules allowing compulsory dismissal at retirement age and non-recruitment of persons of retirement age were not contrary to Community law provided that they were justified by legitimate social policy objectives and were appropriate and necessary for achieving such objectives.”
WLR Daily, 6th March 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Court of Justice of the European Communities
“European member states could lawfully provide in their employment legislation for certain kinds of differences in treatment on the ground of age if those differences were objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim such as employment policy, but the member states had the burden of establishing, to a high standard of proof, the legitimacy of the aim relied on as a justification.”
The Times, 9th March 2009
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“The air traffic control service Nats has been found guilty of age discrimination by refusing to recruit trainee controllers older than 35.”
BBC News, 27th February 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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