This article from PR week is written by Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director at Age UK, and explains the lengthy campaign she ran to end the default retirement age.
A 100-year-old Briton has become the world's oldest marathon runner after finishing a race in Canada.
The University of Cambridge will continue to operate a retirement age.
The number of unemployed young people has passed the million mark, according to statistics to be published this week.
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.
This article from Israel News Agency argues that 56 year old Steve Jobs would be deemed a "dinosaur" by the tech sector today.
Doreen Scruby, 66, was a caretaker at Brookfield House School for 21 years until she left last week (just before the abolition of the default retirement age) after a long-running battle to keep her job.
According to a statement by the department for work and pensions, the new Age Action Alliance brings together groups from across the voluntary, private and public sectors, including Age UK.
On Saturday 1 October the default retirement age, which gives employers the right to fire people aged 65+ purely because of their age, will be abolished.
Nigel Roberts of Politic365 argues for a global strengthening of age discrimination laws.
Juliet Morris, who was forced out of Countryfile with Miriam O'Reilly, says she has not suffered age discrimination.
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 recent study suggests nearly half of employers believe that the abolition of the DRA will have a negative impact on their business, with 22% citing the biggest practical impact being a reduced capacity to take on younger staff.
Unemployment hits young people most. The number of unemployed 18-24 year olds shot up by 77,000 to 769,000 a rise of 11%.
Twenty-five in every hundred people said they were discriminated against for their age, a recent survey research institute Tarki released to MTI on Tuesday said.
A Northern Ireland teenager has received compensation at an industrial tribunal after winning a case of age discrimination against her employer.
A worker suffered age discrimination and was unfairly dismissed from his role in a leisure centre because his employer wanted to avoid incurring pension costs after he turned 50.
IPPR suggest that one of the elements hidden in the official figure is this age discrimination evident during the recession. The risk is that older people who have been out of work for this long stand little chance of ever working again.
Staff over the age of 50 were told their services were no longer required with “immediate effect” because they did not meet the criteria required to continue in jobs they have done for years.
The average award for age discrimination claims has risen by nearly £20,000 since last year, bringing the average to nearly three times that in 2009/10, according to Tribunal Service statistics.