More than four-fifths, or 83 per cent, of the public are of the opinion that age discrimination is an obstacle for the career advancement opportunities of ageing employees in Finland, finds a survey.
Congressmen in the US want to reverse a Supreme Court decision that made it harder for people to claim age discrimination.
UN human rights expert Rosa Kornfeld-Matte has criticised European national newspapers and media outlets for stigmatising older people and scapegoating them in the wake of the Brexit vote.
Age discrimination protections should be extended to cover the provision of goods, facilities and services, according to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.
The national living wage encourages employers to recruit younger workers over older workers to cut costs in breach of age discrimination laws, argued Labour MP Holly Lynch during a parliamentary debate.
An anti-age discrimination law that will prohibit employers from imposing arbitrary age limitations will soon come into force.
More workers are facing age discrimination due to the rise in national minimum wage rates, a charity has claimed.
Teachers' union the NASUWT has warned that pupils are losing out in the classroom because older teachers are being forced out of their jobs by school management.
Candidates applying for jobs can suffer age discrimination simply by promoting characteristics associated with older people, according to new research.
A new US study from the National Economic Bureau of Research shows women facing persistent age discrimination as they get older.
One in five Canadians say they’ve been discriminated against at work because of their gender, according to a new survey conducted by international human resources consulting firm Randstad.
On Thursday, US senators will introduce the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA), a bill aimed at reversing a 2009 Supreme Court decision.
Today's children could live to 120 and work until they're 100, it's been claimed. But which occupations might they take on?
Age discrimination does not get much media attention in Barbados. However, for a large segment of the Barbadian population, it is a reality being experienced for no other reason than the fact that they have reached a certain age.
Switzerland beat out Norway and Sweden for the first place spot this year in an annual ranking of the best countries in the world to be old.
Some 34 percent of Czechs have encountered age discrimination when looking for a job or right at work, daily Pravo writes Wednesday, quoting the figures from a poll conducted by the Profesia.cz portal.
As it enters its ninth season, The Big Bang Theory is an aging sitcom. But a recently-fired employee of the show claims in a new lawsuit he was ousted because of his age, despite his years of experience in the industry.
In New Zealand, 65+ year olds are the people who today inject around $14 billion a year into the Kiwi economy and undertake unpaid and voluntary work worth $8.5 billion annually. So why are they not valued more?
The Workers’ Party (WP) campaign aims to improve retirement, as age discrimination in the workforce has become a problem.
Do “older academics” really need to “make room for the young?” According to a recent opinion article in the Times Higher Education publication, they most certainly do.