Unfair Dismissal: Upper Qualifying Ages may be Unlawful

• Author:
• Daniel Barnett

Members may recall Rutherford -v- Harvest Town Circle [reported on the Network 1 August 2001], in which the Employment Appeal Tribunal set out the legal test for whether the unfair dismissal / redundancy upper qualifying ages were contrary to EU Art 141.

Last week, the Stratford employment tribunal sent out its reserved decision dealing with the statistics on whether the upper qualifying ages had a disparate impact on women in the workplace and, if so, whether the government could justify th... (322 more words)

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