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- Date:
- 7 March 2013
- Type:
- Law reports
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the Equality Act 2010 cannot be interpreted to cover post-employment victimisation.
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- Date:
- 20 February 2013
- Type:
- Law reports
A newly constituted employment tribunal has found that a police force's requirement that its legal advisers have a law degree to be promoted was not justified, in the final chapter in this long-running age discrimination case.
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- Date:
- 7 February 2013
- Type:
- Law reports
The Employment Appeal Tribunal 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.
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- Date:
- 16 January 2013
- Type:
- Law reports
The employment tribunal held that the employer discriminated against the claimant on the ground of age by making him redundant because he was close to retirement. The tribunal drew an inference of age bias against the claimant from workplace banter related to age, including colleagues nicknaming him "Yoda".
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- Date:
- 16 January 2013
- Type:
- Law reports
In this unusual case, a job applicant who passed three interview stages, but had her conditional offer of employment withdrawn over poor psychometric testing results, unsuccessfully claimed age discrimination.
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- Date:
- 21 November 2012
- Type:
- Law reports
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.
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- Date:
- 17 October 2012
- Type:
- Law reports
This employment tribunal decision highlights a drafting error in the Equality Act 2010 that means that post-employment victimisation is not covered. The decision that the claimant's post-employment victimisation claim could not proceed contrasts with the first-instance decision in Taiwo v Olaigbe and another ET/2389629/11, in which the employment tribunal allowed the same sort of claim to be heard.
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- Date:
- 7 October 2012
- Type:
- Law reports
In Homer v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2012] IRLR 601 SC, the Supreme Court held that an employer's policy that its highest grade was open only to employees holding a law degree indirectly discriminated on the grounds of age against those close to retirement.
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- Date:
- 7 October 2012
- Type:
- Law reports
In Seldon v Clarkson Wright & Jakes [2012] IRLR 590 SC, the Supreme Court held that direct age discrimination must be justified by aims that are consistent with the public interest factors referred to in art.6(1) of the Equal Treatment Framework Directive.
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- Date:
- 26 September 2012
- Type:
- Law reports
In Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust [2012] IRLR 491 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the employer was justified in issuing a redundancy dismissal notice to an employee prior to formal consultation so as to avoid his remaining in its employment until his 50th birthday.
