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Age discrimination: Dismissal to avoid age-related benefit was discriminatory

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    Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets v Wooster EAT/0441/08 (0 other reports)

In Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets v Wooster EAT/0441/08, the EAT upheld a finding that the redundancy dismissal of a 49-year-old employee amounted to age discrimination. The tribunal was entitled to find that the employer could have found alternative work for him, but that it had failed to do so because it was concerned that, if he remained employed up to the age of 50, he would be entitled to a more generous early retirement package.