Age discrimination - EAT tackles redundancy schemes again

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• Martin Warren

Last week the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) delivered its first judgment on the subject of justifying age discrimination: MacCulloch v. Imperial Chemical Industries Plc. Just seven days later, we now have a second decision from the EAT on the same topic.

The latest judgment confirms that it can be acceptable for a redundancy scheme to provide reduced benefits to older workers to prevent employees being better off as a consequence of receiving redundancy pay than they would be if working u... (826 more words)

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