Compulsory retirement Summary The Default Retirement Age was abolished in 2011. Since then, requiring a person to retire at a particular age is unlawful as direct...
Compulsory retirement age for academics An appeal case has upheld two tribunal decisions which had reached opposite conclusions on the same university retirement policy. This was t...
Menopause update There has been a tribunal case on harassment related to the menopause, and the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has issued new guida...
How far can cost justify discrimination? The Court of Appeal confirmed that saving or avoidance of costs, without more, is not sufficient for the justification defence. However an e...
Fixed retirement ages for health and safety, and maximum recruitment ages Summary Compulsory retirement age Normally a compulsory retirement age is unlawful as direct age discrimination unless it can be justified b...
Maximum recruitment age for police: EU case The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld a maximum recruitment age of 35 for the Basque police. There was evidence that an officer aged 55 o...
Age: Health and safety legislation for younger workers Certain laws impose additional duties on employers with regard to workers under the age of 18 years. No child should be employed under the a...
Age discrimination: exceptions and particular areas Occupational requirements Occasionally, age is a necessary requirement for a job. One example is of a child actor needed to play Oliver Twis...
Provision of services: age discrimination In general Protection against age discrimination in provision of services and public functions (and private clubs) took effect from 1st Octo...
Age indirect discrimination Summary Indirect discrimination is where someone isn’t treated less favourably because of their age as such (age direct discrimination), but...
