Employment Notes
Tag: age discrimination
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UK: Indirect age discrimination: applying new policy to existing staff may not be justified
The introduction of a new policy, such as qualification requirements for a particular job, can potentially amount to indirect discrimination in relation …
UK: Age discrimination - Supreme Court tinkers with law on retirement ages
In Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes the Supreme Court has confirmed that employers need to give careful consideration when seeking to justify …
UK: Age discrimination - degree requirement needs to be justified
Employers should only impose requirements for job holders to have a degree if these can be justified. Where an employee was coming up to compulsory …
UK: Statutory default retirements - notices invalid if fail to refer to statutory provision
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that employer notices to retire employees under the old statutory default retirement age regime given prior to 6 April …
UK: Discrimination - Court of Appeal rules that costs alone cannot be justification
Employers must establish some legitimate reason other than saving costs in order to justify discrimination. The Court of Appeal has declined to take up …
UK: Voluntary redundancy/early retirement: employers may be able to set budget and use severance cost as a criterion for selection of volunteers
An employer may be justified in selecting those with the cheapest entitlements under a voluntary redundancy/early retirement scheme when seeking to …
Hong Kong: British employment law rights extended to employees based outside of Great Britain
The English Court of Appeal has held that Hong-Kong based cabin crew who served on flights between Hong Kong and London can bring age and race …