Age discrimination

New and updated

• Date:

  12 January 2009

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Employee dismissed for displaying 'ageist tendencies' was not discriminated against on grounds of age

  In Live Nation Venues (UK) Ltd v Hussain and other appeals EAT/0234/08, EAT/0235/08 & EAT/0236/08, the EAT held that the fact that the employer's decision to dismiss was influenced by the employee's perceived difficulty in being managed by two younger female colleagues did not give rise to an inference that the dismissal was on grounds of the employee's age.

• Date:

  22 November 2008

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Length of service as part of redundancy selection matrix is lawful

  In Rolls-Royce v Unite [2008] EWHC 2420 HC, the High Court held that two collective agreements that set out an approach to redundancy giving points for length of service in the selection process were lawful under the age discrimination legislation.

• Date:

  29 September 2008

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Tribunal should have had regard to disadvantage suffered by employee

  In Loxley v BAE Systems Land Systems (Munitions & Ordnance) Ltd EAT/0156/08, the EAT held that an employment tribunal must have regard to the disadvantage sustained by an employee in order to determine whether or not the employer's treatment of the employee was a proportionate response to a legitimate aim.

• Date:

  15 September 2008

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Sex discrimination: Trade union indirectly discriminated against members

  In Allen and others v GMB [2008] IRLR 690, the Court of Appeal held that a trade union indirectly discriminated against a group of its members where its aim was to secure pay protection and future pay for employees, but its means of achieving this aim - persuading women with historic equal pay claims to settle them disadvantageously - were disproportionate.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Age discrimination against younger workers

  This week's case of the week, provided by Addleshaw Goddard, covers age discrimination against younger workers.

• Date:

  24 December 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: recent tribunal decisions

  A review of a number of recent employment tribunal decisions suggests that some employers remain unaware of the implications of, or are struggling with, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1031), which became law on 1 October 2006. The decisions also demonstrate the approach that the tribunals might take to the question of justification of discrimination and to the assessment of injury to feelings compensation.

• Date:

  8 November 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Bloxham v Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

  In Bloxham v Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer [2007] ET/2205086/06, an employment tribunal has held that changes to a law firm's pension scheme that discriminated on the grounds of age were justified.

• Date:

  17 October 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Félix Palacios de la Villa v Cortefiel Servicios SA

  In Félix Palacios de la Villa v Cortefiel Servicios SA Case C-411/05, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has given its judgment that the Equal Treatment Directive (2000/78/EC) does not preclude a Spanish law permitting clauses in collective agreements that allow employees to be compulsorily retired when they reach a specified age.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer stipulate an age limit or a preferred age range for a job?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up: indirect age discrimination; and homeworking arrangements

  This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: indirect age discrimination; and homeworking arrangements.