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EAT holds age-related severance payments not discriminatory

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    Lockwood v Department for Work and Pensions and another EAT/0094/12 (0 other reports)

direct age discrimination | justification | voluntary redundancy schemes

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a voluntary redundancy scheme that provided different severance payments for two different age groups of employees was not age discriminatory because the differential treatment was justified.