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- Employment law cases
In this age discrimination case, the employment tribunal found that staff in a school conspired to force out a highly paid older teacher as a way of cutting costs.
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- Employment law cases
In this age discrimination case brought by a young worker, the employment tribunal held that a manager's use of the words "teenager" and "kid" to describe the claimant amounted to harassment.
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- Employment law cases
In the final chapter of this long-running case on the justification of a compulsory retirement age for partners in a law firm, the employment tribunal applied Supreme Court guidance and concluded that a requirement for partners to step down at 65 was justified.
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- Employment law cases
In this age discrimination case, the police successfully defended a claim by a police officer who left after being chosen for redeployment, but not before the employment tribunal described its cost-cutting exercise as "shambolic" and "to some degree incompetent".
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- Employment law cases
A newly constituted employment tribunal has found that a police force's requirement that its legal advisers have a law degree to be promoted was not justified, in the final chapter in this long-running age discrimination case.
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- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a voluntary redundancy scheme that provided different severance payments for two different age groups of employees was not age discriminatory because the differential treatment was justified.
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- Employment law cases
The employment tribunal held that the employer discriminated against the claimant on the ground of age by making him redundant because he was close to retirement. The tribunal drew an inference of age bias against the claimant from workplace banter related to age, including colleagues nicknaming him "Yoda".
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- Employment law cases
In this unusual case, a job applicant who passed three interview stages, but had her conditional offer of employment withdrawn over poor psychometric testing results, unsuccessfully claimed age discrimination.
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- Date:
- 26 September 2012
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- Employment law cases
In Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust [2012] IRLR 491 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the employer was justified in issuing a redundancy dismissal notice to an employee prior to formal consultation so as to avoid his remaining in its employment until his 50th birthday.
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- Date:
- 10 July 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The European Court of Justice has upheld the Swedish law that allows an employer to terminate an employee's contract of employment on the sole ground that he or she has reached the age of 67, taking no account of the pension that the employee will receive.