Andy Burnham, the health secretary, today admitted that age discrimination in the NHS exists and needs to be stamped out.
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Andy Burnham, the health secretary, today admitted that age discrimination in the NHS exists and needs to be stamped out.
The state pension age should rise to 70 as soon as "reasonably practical", company directors have argued.
Contract compliance is working well as an instrument of social reform and divertsity promotion but not well enough to extend its use to combat age discrimination.
The new Supreme Court risks wasting some of its best talent unless the judges' retirement age is raised to 75, the chamber's head said yesterday.
The UK has experienced an unprecedented demographic shift, with the numbers of young people dwindling as the older section of the population increases. This is because people are living longer and staying active until much later in life.
Life expectancy increases by 15 minutes every hour. Fit and healthy 65-year-old men can expect to live to 88 and women longer still. By the time a man now starting his career reaches 65, he might expect to live until almost 100.
The retirement age should be scrapped as millions of pensioners are still in poverty despite Government efforts to lift them out of it, MPs say.
A review of the default retirement age, which allows employers to compel staff to retire at 65, is to be brought forward by a year, the government says.
Workers are forced by the Government to leave their jobs at 65 just to make life easier for businesses, the High Court has heard.
The Court of Appeal recently handed down Rolls Royce v Unite in which the legality of length of service criterion as part of a redundancy selection matrix was considered.
Chief executive of Cumbria Primary Care Trust claims her dismissal of a NHS boss saved the taxpayer more than £500,000.
Retiring later can delay the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, research suggests.
A 69 year old waiter has bought a claim for age discrimination against a luxury hotel who dismissed him in favour of younger waiters. The Claimant is claiming £115, 000 in compensation.
This is another example of age discrimination.
Judges will have to retire at 70.
Ms Scott's contract to replace Natasha Kaplinsky was allegedly cancelled in favour of two younger replacements.
An ongoing study by UCLA and Stanford University researchers of 20,000 registered voters has found that far more of them would vote against Sen. John McCain because of his age than would vote against Sen. Barack Obama because of his race.
Age discrimination claims lodged with the Irish Equality Tribunal between January and June 2008 have increased by 150% over the same period last year.
Richard Hewett, 49 when he failed to get on the show in 2005, says Mr Trump and producers have violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.