Heyday may have suffered a setback in its campaign to have the UK's default retirement age scrapped, but spare a thought for its American counterpart, the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). It's being sued by a former employee for, of all things, age discrimination.
Bonita Brady, aged 63, claims that she was discriminated against on the grounds of age when she lost her job at the AARP in a reorganisation and was passed over for promotion nine times, despite excellent appraisals. She is suing the organisation in federal court in Michigan for $25,000.
The UK's age discrimination legislation, which came into force in 2006, is still in its infancy when compared with the American Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which has now entered middle age. The Act was introduced in 1967 and initially applied to workers aged 40 to 65. The upper age limit was raised to 70 in 1978 and removed altogether in 1986. A key difference when compared with UK legislation is that the Act protects only older workers (aged 40 and over).
Read more about the case on the New York Times website.
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