Tribunal update: Age discrimination during performance management

XpertHR provides a summary and the full transcript of two interesting recent employment tribunal rulings involving:

• an 18-year-old worker's claim that a manager's description of her as a "kid", "stroppy kid" and "stroppy little teenager" constituted age harassment; and
• a claim by a teacher in her 60s that heavy-handed criticism was used to force her out as a way of cutting costs. 

Also

In the employment tribunals Access the XpertHR archive of tribunal decisions, as well as longer round-ups of cases on a particular topic. 

Employment tribunal decisions 03.05.13 to 09.06.13 A round-up of links to stories about employment tribunal rulings reported in the week beginning 3 June 2013, during which Sutton Council agreed to reinstate an independent reviewing officer who claimed that his contract was terminated because he raised concerns about the authority's work with children.