A manager or business owner who singles out for criticism younger members of staff solely because of their age is committing direct age discrimination. In Osborne and another v Gondhia and others t/a ...

Ageism is defined as any prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of age. In other words, age discrimination in employment is when someone’s age is used as the basis for employment decisions, for ...

According to research from the Centre for Ageing Better, 37 per cent of worker in the 50s and 60s who had experienced age discrimination did so in the workplace. Claire McCartney, senior inclusion ...

Doctors will be in breach of the law from October if they withhold medical help to patients purely on the basis of their age, the home secretary Theresa May will announce on Tuesday in a tightening of ...

As the workforce ages it’s important to celebrate age diversity. More and more people are working until much later in life and this presents new and exciting challenges for organisations to harness ...

How is the law set to change? On 1 October the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 come into force. The upshot of this EU inspired law is that it will be unlawful to discriminate against ...

A staggering 70.8 per cent of UK workers reveal discrimination around age is common in their workplace, rising to 85.3 per cent amongst those aged 55-64. That’s according to the latest piece of ...

This paper examines whether biological age, as distinct from chronological age, could become a new basis for discrimination.

Unions cite age as the most common form of discrimination in the workplace. However, age discrimination has not had the high profile of discrimination on grounds of sex or race, both of which have ...

It is no surprise that age discrimination negatively affects people's mental health but, according to new research, it could be having an impact on physical health too. University College London ...