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Should recruitment firms be threatened with the Equality and Human Rights Commission if they fail to do more to prevent age discrimination?
British soldiers have to serve until age 22 regardless of their joining age: a 16-year-old recruit must serve six years and a 17-year-old five years. Adults just serve minimum 4 years.
Britain’s biggest airport car parking company, Purple Parking, has admitted age discrimination against its workers after it sacked dozens of them for being too old.
Retirement can cause a drastic decline in health, according to a study released today.
She seeks selection as the Labour candidate for Nuneaton (currently Conservative held).
Labour is setting up a commission led by Miriam O'Reilly, the former Countryfile presenter, and Arlene Phillips, the former Strictly Come Dancing judge, to tackle age discrimination against women over the age of 50.
The new BBC director-general, George Entwistle, has told Miriam O'Reilly, the presenter who won a landmark age discrimination case against the corporation, that he wants her to return to screens in a prominent presenting role.
Too young to have IVF: 24-year-old Andrea Heywood fights against age discrimination and her right to fertility treatment
As Age UK survey finds 60% of UK thinks age discrimination is widespread, a mass lobby of Parliament on Tuesday will aim to get the Government to reform and boost funding for social care.
The magnificent P D James admitted that she had been troubled by age discrimination.
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Admitting he is approaching his own "sell-by date", Prince Philip said the physical and mental fragilities that come with age mean discrimination on the grounds of age can be justified.
An influential group of City grandees has told ministers that tribunal awards for discrimination should be cases capped at £50,000.
New statistics show that the number of over-65s still in work has doubled in the past decade. The increase in older workers was hailed as a victory against age discrimination, but unions warned that older employees could suffer workplace injuries.
Former MP Michael Brown discusses the trend for political parties to choose younger leaders. In his view, our representative democracy has matured on terms of sex, race and gender balance, but has taken a step back in terms of age discrimination.
World affairs editor says discrimination comes from top of the Corporation.