Source: IRS Employment Review Issue: 906 Date: 29/09/2008 Publisher: IRS

Age discrimination: Tribunal should have had regard to disadvantage suffered by employee

TOPICS:
pay and benefits pensions
equal opportunities age
termination of employment  redundancy
payments on termination

CASES: below is a list of cases discussed in this article. Click the case title for more XpertHR resources on the case and related cases.

Loxley v BAE Systems (Munitions & Ordnance) Ltd [2008] IRLR 853 EAT (4 reports)


In Loxley v BAE Systems Land Systems (Munitions & Ordnance) Ltd EAT/0156/08, the EAT held that an employment tribunal must have regard to the disadvantage sustained by an employee in order to determine whether or not the employer's treatment of the employee was a proportionate response to a legitimate aim.

Key points

  • While the prevention of a windfall for older employees may justify the denial of a contractual redundancy payment to an employee who is entitled to an occupational pension, it is not "inevitably and in all cases justified for those entitled to an immediate receipt of a pension to be excluded from [a] redundancy scheme".

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