Search results for Age discrimination – two years on
Subjects
Formats
Services
Did you mean to type: Age discrimination impends two years on? (8 results)
25 results found showing 1 - 20
-
Age discrimination for over 50s still 'endemic'
Nearly all jobseekers over the age of 50 experience age discrimination, according to the findings of a recent survey. This is despite the introduction of age discrimination regulations two years ago which were intended to make it easier for older people to get work.The survey of 370 jobseekers over the age of 50 revealed that only o...
News | 29 Oct 2008
-
Age discrimination judges lose their case
The two part-time immigration judges who launched an age discrimination claim earlier this month, against the Ministry of Justice over being forced to retire at 70, have lost their case. Judge Jeremy Varcoe and Judge Stuart Southgate told an Employment Tribunal in Berkshire that they had been discriminated against on the grounds of age by being forced ...
Case | 27 Mar 2009
-
Age discrimination challenge referred to EU court
Yesterday (6 December) retirement group Heyday took the Government to the High Court over the issue of Mandatory Retirement Ages (MRAs) contained in the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. The challenge has now been referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Heyday claims that the MRAs clause in the new Regulations allows employers to force employees to retire at or after 65, and enables employers to refus...
News | 7 Dec 2006
-
Government to review compensation for discrimination claims
...r dismissal claims where there is a cap on the maximum compensation which can be awarded. This, combined with the fact that there is no minimum period of employment required to qualify for protection, fuels ‘have a go’ claims in the view of many employers. Another reason this may be high on the agenda is that, if the Government goes ahead with its plans to increase the qualifying period for unfair dismissal to two years, this could well lead to a rise in discrimination claims by dismissed employees who are looking for a way to sue for compensation. "This is because discrimination claims need...
News | 11 May 2011
-
Scrapping default retirement age 'bad' for young employees
The Government’s proposal to scrap the default retirement age from April 6 next year has prompted a Kent lawyer to speak out for talented young employees struggling to find a foothold on the employment ladder. Melissa Edmond, employment lawyer at law firm Furley Page, said: “Age UK’s director Michelle Mitchell has stated that ‘everyone stands to win fr...
News | 5 Aug 2010
-
“Britain’s got talent”: EHRC on the Equality Bill
...individuals and civic society. We all want to live in thriving communities that flourish economically and socially. We cherish our wellbeing alongside economic security.” The Equality Bill contains a series of measures to tackle entrenched inequalities including particular measures on equal pay, age discrimination and socio-economic disadvantage. The Commission believes these measures will help ensure all groups in society are able to contribute to the economic and community life of Britain. Research shows that the gap is wider in the private sector than in the public sector (a full-time...
News | 27 Apr 2009
-
EFA calls for equal minimum wage for 18-21 year olds
A call is to be made to the Government, appealing for a commitment to equalise the national minimum wage (NMW) for 18-year-olds upwards.The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) is this week to submit evidence to the Low Pay Commission – the body which advises the Government about the minimum amount which can be earned by employees – on the value of an age diverse workforce and the importance of maintainin...
News | 7 Oct 2008
-
Decision expected soon for default retirement age challenge
A decision in the Heyday case – which is challenging UK age discrimination legislation in the European Court of Justice – is now expected on 2 July, rather than in 2009 as previously thought.Heyday, an arm of Age Concern, is claiming that the UK Government was in breach of the European Union’s Equal Treatment Directive by imposing a mandatory retirement...
News | 30 May 2008
-
Age-old problem as fifth of bosses admit to discrimination
A new study by the Chartered Management Institute and the CIPD has found that more than a fifth of managers and personnel officers admit to discriminating against workers on grounds of age. In the survey of 2600 people, 22 per cent of those questioned admitted to age discrimination. This is despite that fact that six out of 10 al...
News | 24 Oct 2005
-
Are businesses facing an employment law headache?
...he Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) claims that businesses are facing a “growing headache” due to increasing amounts of legislation. According to the FSB its helpline saw an overall rise of 8% in the number of calls it received in 2006, with over 76,000 calls coming in last year at an average rate of over 200 per day. The main areas of concern, that have seen large increases since 2005, were: age discrimination – up 664%; information and consultation – up 439%; part time workers up 68%; pensions 23%; retirement 88%; and other forms of discri...
News | 22 Jan 2007
-
Should positive discrimination be made legal?
..., Trevor Phillips has called for changes in equality laws to allow positive discrimination. The Commission for Equality and Human Rights is due to come into being in October 2007 and has been given the remit to tackle discrimination in relation to gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion, age and human rights from October 2007. It will include race by April 2009. Philips has commented that some areas of employment will never stop being all white without new kinds of positive action being taken. His comments have been seen as important as he is currently chairing the Independent Equa...
News | 14 Dec 2006
-
Call for repeal of Working Time Directive
...n Government has been called upon to repeal the Working Time Directive. The latest Labour Market Outlook ‘Employer Focus’ survey of 800 respondents from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and KPMG found that employers view the Working Time Regulations (28%) and the Agency Worker Regulations (32%), due to come into effect in October 2011, as of most hindrance to business. Only 28% and 13% respectively believe they will be helpful. It also reveals that only 40% of organisations offer working fathers two weeks’ pay at or near the full rate of pay, while arou...
News | 24 May 2010
-
Equality Bill: key elements and timescale
...a long time coming and the sooner we see the harmonisation of the law in a single Act, the better. Our current discrimination legislation, which governs so much in the workplace and beyond, has often been inconsistent and difficult to interpret. A single set of rules, and some simplified language, will be welcome, but with change come challenges. There is no doubt that the Act will be heavily relied on and tested by employers and employees as soon as it comes into force in October. “While many principles will remain the same, the scope of discrimination law will be widened and reint...
News | 7 Apr 2010
-
Workplace ageism still rife, C4 programme reveals
A Dispatches programme aired on Channel 4 last night has revealed persisting ageism amongst employers and recruitment agencies. The mandatory retirement age, introduced in 2006, has forced tens of thousands out of their positions, against their will, the programme showed. Three professionals aged over 50 described the ageism they have faced from recruitment agencies – fro...
News | 10 Feb 2009
-
Father’s health prompted newsreader to settle ageism claim
Newsreader Selina Scott accepted £250,000 and an apology from Channel Five in her ageism claim, rather than go to a tribunal, so she could be with her dying father. Scott had suggested she wanted to highlight ageism against women in television, but is believed to have changed her mind after her father's health deteriorated. Charles Scott, 81, died after a stroke on Christmas Eve, wi...
Case | 30 Dec 2008
-
Tories to offer more rights to working parents
... Similarly, this report showed that other methods of flexible working, such as term-time working, job sharing and flexible retirement have become more widely offered.The Conservatives are also pledging to extend further the right to flexible working, to cover parents with children up to 18 years of age – something already being considered by the government.The current consultation on flexible working due to end on 18 November focuses on the recommendations of Imelda Walsh, HR Director of J Sainsbury plc. Walsh’s proposals, published on 15 May, included the right to request flexible working be...
News | 1 Oct 2008
-
Latest statistics show significant rise in unemployment
...rket figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which show a significant deterioration in the UK job market.The figures show that there have been decreases in the number of people in employment and the employment rate itself, as well as the number of job vacancies. Growth in average earnings including bonuses has increased but earnings growth excluding bonuses is unchanged.Other information given by the ONS report included that there were 363,000 working days lost due to labour disputes during July 2008.John Philpott, Chief Economist at the CIPD, comments:“With horribly bitt...
News | 17 Sep 2008
-
Equality Bill: full details announced in House of Commons
... sectors where most progress needs to be made, starting with the financial services sector; andby creating a new kite-mark system to challenge companies to report on equality. The second measure announced by Harman is that the new Equality Bill will lay down duties on the public sector to eliminate age discrimination and promote age equality. Also, age discrimination in the provision of goods and services will be outlawed. Harman conceded that the Government will need to allow for a transitional period for changes to be made so that goods and service providers can comply with the law:“…but wo...
News | 26 Jun 2008
-
6 April 2008: what are the changes to workplace legislation?
...8: what are the changes to workplace legislation? 6 April 2008: what are the changes to workplace legislation? On 6 April and 1 October each year the Common Commencement Dates - legislation affecting the workplace is implemented. So, what changes are being made this April? Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2007 These Regulations will increase protection for those seeking work and reduce certain regulatory burdens on businesses in the employment sector. Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 This legislation should make it easier t...
News analysis | 4 Apr 2008
-
CBI attacks rising costs of employment legislation
The DTI anticipates that there may be 8,000 age discrimination cases brought to UK tribunals in the first year following introduction of new age discrimination legislation. The employment tribunals system itself has come under fire from the CBI today in a CBI report, the CBI-Pertemps Employment Trends Survey 2006. Over half of employers said t...
News | 2 Oct 2006
