A new breed of 'grey panthers' has emerged - the phrase refers to those women who embrace their full heads of grey hair while maintaining high-climbing careers.
The latest UK and international age discrimination news from around the web.
Viewing entries in
The Daily Mail
A new breed of 'grey panthers' has emerged - the phrase refers to those women who embrace their full heads of grey hair while maintaining high-climbing careers.
A TV weatherman has sued CBS broadcasting for sex and age discrimination claiming his job applications were ignored because he isn't a 20-something woman.
Town halls are guilty of ‘age discrimination’ because they are under-funding vital services for the elderly by at least £500million a year, a report says today.
Pensions Minister Steve Webb said that ‘the idea that we are old at 59 belongs in the era of Downton Abbey – not in 2012,’
A 23-year-old died of cervical cancer because doctors said she was too young for a smear test, her devastated family have claimed.
Former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips has said she is 'overwhelmed' after fans called for her to return to the hit BBC show.
Elderly cancer sufferers die in greater numbers than younger patients because of NHS ageism, official figures suggest.
A musician who is suing a youth orchestra for placing age restrictions on a competition has officially complained about the judge handling his case - because he says he is too old.
Marcy Starnes, 52, claims that the movie theatre wanted "much younger persons". Theatre managers also claimed that "only people who are 25 or 26 years of age know Excel".
The case alleges that the barbecue chain instructed its managers to commit age discrimniation and hire younger job applicants for positions such as servers, hosts and bartenders.
A mother has accused NHS chiefs of 'age discrimination' after they refused to supply special artificial limbs to her one-year-old daughter until she is 18.
A female television news anchor in the USA has spoken out for the first time after claiming she lost her job because she is over the age of 40.
Inspector Bamber had a well founded age discrimination claim according to Judge Hilary Slater.
A New York casino is sued for age discrimination by 7 fired cocktail waitresses who say the skin-revealing new outfits that casino cocktail waitresses must wear have cost 15 of them their jobs, because middle-aged servers don’t look sexy enough in them.
A strip bar waitress aged 56 - who was teased about having Alzheimer’s and was unfairly fired - has won a $60,000 payout for age discrimination.
As Mirian O'Reilly celebrates victory in her age discrimination case against the BBC, a series of sensational emails have emerged that reveal the BBC's panic over her ageism sacking.
The presenter, 53, is suing the broadcaster for sex and age discrimination after losing her job when the show was moved to a prime-time slot.
The recession has created a generation of over-50s who are condemned to long-term unemployment, disturbing new figures revealed last night.
There are now at least 389,000 over-50s who can't get a job. The Mail reported recently on the personal experiences of some of them.
Rachel Krys, campaign director for the Employers Forum on Age, speaks out about employers attitudes to recuiting older workers.