Prospective employee wins first Northern Irish age discrimination case

A prospective employee who was asked age-related questions at an interview has won the first ever age discrimination case to be brought in Northern Ireland.

Terence McCoy brought the age discrimination claim after being turned down for a job of salesman with Belfast timber firm James McGregor and Sons.

An Employment Tribunal concluded that McCoy would ‘more probably than not’ have been selected for employment if it wasn’t for his age.

McCoy, then 58, said he felt as if... (192 more words)

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