All items: Retirement

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  Holmes v Active Sensors Ltd ET/100214/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest: age discrimination

    Date:

    1 January 2008

    Sue Johnstone, editor of Equal Opportunities Review, provides a round-up of some of the remedies that employment tribunals have awarded in age discrimination cases.

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  Hörnfeldt v Posten Meddelande AB [2012] IRLR 785 ECJ (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Age discrimination: Swedish default retirement age is justified and therefore lawful

    Date:

    21 November 2012

    In Hörnfeldt v Posten Meddelande AB [2012] IRLR 785 ECJ, the ECJ held that a provision of Swedish law that stipulates that employers may lawfully terminate the contracts of employees who reach the age of 67 does not breach European age discrimination law.

  • Age discrimination: ECJ rules Swedish default retirement age of 67 to be lawful

    Date:

    10 July 2012

    The European Court of Justice has upheld the Swedish law that allows an employer to terminate an employee's contract of employment on the sole ground that he or she has reached the age of 67, taking no account of the pension that the employee will receive. 

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  Howard v Campbell's Caravans Ltd [2011] EAT/0609/10 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Statutory retirement: Letter notifying retirement dismissal should be given its natural meaning

    Date:

    13 February 2012

    In Howard v Campbell's Caravans Ltd EAT/0609/10, the EAT held that a retirement notice that stated that the employee would cease work "after" his 65th birthday constituted valid notification under the (now defunct) statutory retirement procedure.

  • Statutory retirement procedure: notice that retirement would be "after" particular date was valid

    Date:

    22 June 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a retirement notice issued under the now-defunct statutory retirement procedure that stated that the employee would cease work "after" his 65th birthday was valid. 

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  Johns v Solent SD Ltd [2007] ET/00414/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Johns v Solent SD Ltd

    Date:

    25 July 2007

    In Johns v Solent SD Ltd [2007] ET/00414/07, an employment tribunal has denied a request that proceedings in a claim for unfair dismissal and age discrimination be stayed until the outcome of Heyday's challenge to the default retirement age.

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  Johns v Solent SD Ltd [2008] IRLR 820 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Johns v Solent SD Ltd

    Date:

    17 June 2008

    The Court of Appeal has upheld an Employment Appeal Tribunal decision that an employee's claim for unfair dismissal and age discrimination should be stayed until the outcome of Heyday's challenge to the default retirement age.

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  Johns v Solent SD Ltd [2008] IRLR 88 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Johns v Solent SD Ltd

    Date:

    10 December 2007

    In Johns v Solent SD Ltd EAT/0449/07, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employment tribunal was wrong not to stay an employee's claim for unfair dismissal and age discrimination until the outcome of Heyday's challenge to the default retirement age.

  • Case of the week: Compulsory retirement risk for private and public sector

    Date:

    27 November 2007

    This week's case of the week, provided by Addleshaw Goddard, covers compulsory retirement risk for private and public sector.

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  Kingsbery v Southport & Formby NHS Trust [1993] IT/24198/92 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time limit on discriminatory retirement claims

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    1 June 1993

    Complaints under EEC law in respect of discriminatory retirement prior to 1986 had to be brought within three months of implementation of the Sex Discrimination Act 1986, rules a Liverpool industrial tribunal (Chair: E T Connolly) in Kingsbery v Southport & Formby NHS Trust.

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  Lloyd-Briden v Worthing College EAT/0065/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Lloyd-Briden v Worthing College

    Date:

    26 June 2007

    In Lloyd-Briden v Worthing College EAT/0065/07, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, for claims based on events that took place before age discrimination legislation came into force on 1 October 2006, employment tribunals do not have to disregard the bar on persons over 65 claiming unfair dismissal.

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  Martin and others v Professional Match Game Officials Ltd ET/2802438/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Football officials suffered age discrimination

    Date:

    17 March 2011

    This well-publicised decision concerns whether or not four assistant referees were discriminated against as a result of a retirement age of 48.

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  Martin v SS Photay & Associates [2007] ET/1100242/07 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Case digest: age discrimination

    Date:

    1 January 2008

    Sue Johnstone, editor of Equal Opportunities Review, provides a round-up of some of the remedies that employment tribunals have awarded in age discrimination cases.

  • Age discrimination: recent tribunal decisions

    Date:

    24 December 2007

    A review of a number of recent employment tribunal decisions suggests that some employers remain unaware of the implications of, or are struggling with, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1031), which became law on 1 October 2006. The decisions also demonstrate the approach that the tribunals might take to the question of justification of discrimination and to the assessment of injury to feelings compensation.