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Welcome to agediscrimination.info

Agediscrimination.info is a one-stop source of statistics and information for employers, employees, researchers, students, journalists and others interested in age discrimination issues in the UK as well as internationally, including the USA, Canada, India and other countries.

Ageism and age discrimination could affect anyone throughout their life, from children to old age pensioners and agediscrimination.info provides a wealth of data, information and guidance on UK age discrimination laws and issues. Agediscrimination.info also includes a comprehensive summary of international age discrimination laws provided by law firms from the Ius Laboris international employment law alliance.

According to leading employment law barrister and age discrimination expert Jennifer Eady QC of Old Square Chambers, "Lewis Silkin is to be congratulated on this website - it is a great resource", whilst Sean Jones QC of 11KBW regards agediscrimination.info as "excellent".

Lewis Silkin and Sacker & Partners have also produced a book on age discrimination (an 'excellent analysis of age discrimination legislation' - Michael Rubenstein, Equal Opportunities Review, 1 October 2008).

The site also features important age discrimination cases from the UK and Europe which help explain the age discrimination laws.

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AGE DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION

For access to the EU Directive, the UK age discrimination regulations, guidance and government consultations, visit our age discrimination legislation section.

AGE DISCRIMINATION CASES

For reports of key cases with relevance for age discrimination, go to the age discrimination cases section. This page is updated regularly with all the latest age discrimination cases from the courts and employment tribunals.

We would like to hear from anyone involved in cases under the age discrimination laws, especially where these may not be widely reported. Please contact us with details of new age discrimination cases.

AGE DISCRIMINATION INTERNATIONALLY

Some EU member states have only recently implemented the strand of the Framework Directive prohibiting age discrimination, whilst many non-EU countries have longstanding age discrimination laws. For details of age discrimination legislation around the world, visit our section on international age discrimination laws.

AGE DISCRIMINATION NEWS

Canadians believe employers discriminate against older applicants

Nearly three-quarters of Canadians believe workplaces are shunning older job applicants based solely on their age, a worrisome finding given labour force trends in Canada.

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In Mexico, there are over 7m in older people in poverty and nearly 30% are victims of age discrimination...

...but there are no federal laws against age discrimination.

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Former Daily Telegraph sketchwriter loses age discrimination case

Senior Daily Telegraph journalist Andrew Gimson has lost a case claiming that he was unfairly dismissed after more than seven years as the newspaper's main parliamentary sketchwriter because of age discrimination.

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