Age discrimination

New and updated

• Date:

  1 March 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

  David Malamatenios is a partner in the employment department at Colman Coyle Solicitors. He rounds up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  1 December 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

  Krishna Santra and Sandra Martins are senior associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  28 October 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Age discrimination: An early retirement exercise by police forces did not give rise to unlawful indirect age discrimination

  In Chief Constable of West Midlands Police and others v Harrod and others [2015] IRLR 790 EAT, the EAT held that the employment tribunal erred in holding that the indirect age discrimination that arose from the application of reg.A19 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 was unjustified.

• Date:

  9 October 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Direct discrimination: limited company can bring Equality Act claim

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a limited company can bring a claim of direct discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.

• Date:

  29 September 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Age discrimination: young workers singled out for "aggressive" criticism win claims

  Two young sisters who resigned from their jobs in a service station after what they felt was aggressive and unfair criticism have won their claims for age and sex discrimination in an employment tribunal.

• Date:

  25 July 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Age discrimination: project manager approaching 65 made redundant

  In finding that an older project manager was chosen for redundancy because of his age, this employment tribunal highlighted evidence of comments from the managing director that it was time for him to retire.

• Date:

  14 July 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  No indirect age discrimination in retiring longer-serving police officers

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has dismissed police officers' claims for indirect discrimination on the ground of age. Police forces, to make costs savings, applied the A19 rule in the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 to retire officers who had accrued a certain minimum pension entitlement that could be achieved only after 30 years' service.

• Date:

  25 June 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Indirect discrimination: claimants required to show the "reason why" they are disadvantaged

  The Court of Appeal has held that it is necessary in indirect discrimination claims for the claimant to show why the provision, criterion or practice (PCP) has disadvantaged the group and the individual claimant.

• Type:

  FAQs

  How can an employer know whether or not its retirement age can be objectively justified?

• Type:

  FAQs

  How should an employer that is no longer using a compulsory retirement age amend its policies?