ACAS publishes guidance on age discrimination . . .

ACAS has issued its guidance on how employers can comply with the age discrimination regulations coming into force on 1 October 2006.

The guidance covers training, equal opportunities, recruitment, promotion, performance appraisals, pay, conditions, benefits, redundancy, pensions and retirement.

Age and the workplace: Putting the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 into practice (PDF format, 562K)  Read the guidance on the ACAS website.

Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006   Read the Regulations in full on HR & Compliance Centre's legislation service.

Also

How to prepare for the forthcoming age discrimination legislation   Practical guidance from XpertHR's How to service.

Age discrimination   Detailed legal guidance from HR & Compliance Centre's reference manual.

How to justify age-based work practices   Trade and industry secretary Alan Johnson looks at the circumstances in which differences of treatment on the grounds of age can be objectively justified, in the latest of his series of articles in the run up to the new regulations.