Those seeking to rely on length of service as a redundancy selection criterion can take comfort from this decision  More...
01 July 2009 00:09

HR news and analysis including: Lobby groups want the Home Office to crack down on intra-company transfers as they say they are an abuse of immigration legislation The Heyday age discrimination day court case date is set and the Personn  More...
26 June 2009 17:47

The final stage in a three-year legal battle to scrap the default retirement age of 65 will begin at the High Court next month. The Heyday case, which began in December 2006, returns to the High Court on 16 July following a European Court of Justic  More...
26 June 2009 11:35

Rolls Royce v Unite Facts Rolls Royce had entered into collective agreements with trade union Unite that set out the agreed approach to be taken in a redundancy situation. In a redundancy selection process, employees would be assessed against  More...
02 June 2009 12:36

The MP who suggested names should be banned from job applications to prevent discrimination has stood by her proposal despite it attracting fierce criticism from the HR profession. Lynne Featherstone, Liberal Democrat MP and party spokeswoman for equ  More...
26 May 2009 11:27

One in seven HR managers plans to use the default retirement age to help cut jobs, according to a survey by Age Concern and Help the Aged. Results from a poll of 104 managers showed that they were increasingly planning to make more use of retir  More...
21 May 2009 11:23

HR news and analysis including: Police HR face a backlash from front-line officers for attempting to modernise the workforce; HR directors slam a potential clause in the Equality Bill to force job applications to be nameless to avoid di  More...
15 May 2009 16:36

A radical proposal to ban names from job applications to prevent discrimination – backed in principle by the CIPD – has been slammed by HR chiefs as "bureaucratic" and "unworkable". Lynne Featherstone , Liberal Democrat MP and party spokes  More...
15 May 2009 16:03

Awarding points for long service, when selecting employees for redundancy, is not discriminatory under the age discrimination regulations , the Court of Appeal ruled today in Rolls Royce v Unite . The court upheld a similar ruling by the High  More...
14 May 2009 09:01

Job applications should be anonymous so employers don't "subliminally" discriminate based on gender, race or age, a Liberal Democrat MP said. Proposing an amendment to the Equality Bill in Parliament this week, Lynne Featherstone, the Lib Dem youth  More...
13 May 2009 15:36

Swine flu is  here in the UK , and no-one is sure how widely it will spread, and how severely it will strike. There were  three flu pandemics in the 20th century : in 1918, 1957 and 1968. Up to a quarter of the UK po  More...
01 May 2009 12:46

A waiter is suing a hotel for age discrimination after they cut his shifts and gave the remaining hours to younger, less experienced colleagues. Italian-born waiter Pietro Dell'Osa, 69, is suing Monkey Island Hotel in Berkshire for age discriminatio  More...
20 April 2009 11:06

A 56-year-old NHS worker who was told she was too old to take on a new job may receive a record £500,000 in damages. Linda Sturdy claimed her application for a senior role at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in 2007 was rejected and given to a youn  More...
09 April 2009 09:53

Equalities minister Harriet Harman's Equality Bill will, if enacted, extend the law on direct discrimination to include discrimination by association and perception to disability, sex, gender reassignment and age in both the employment field and be  More...
03 April 2009 12:00

Four UK companies who actively seek to employ older workers were among the 10 global recipients of International Innovative Employer Awards , presented by the US not-for-profit organisation AARP in association with The Age and Employment Network (TAEN). Tara Craig profiles the winners.  More...
20 March 2009 10:31

Two managers held hostage by workers unhappy with their severance packages have been released. The pair, HR manager Roland Bentz and Sony France boss Serge Foucher, were held for 18 hours over the weekend by workers at a Sony plant in South West Fra  More...
17 March 2009 08:00

HR news and analysis including: Experts warn of ineffective equality targets in emergency services An exclusive interview with Baroness Sally Greengross on the default retirement age A UK border agency employee ha  More...
13 March 2009 16:37

Heyday decision: Employer and legal reaction to the ECJ ruling on the Heyday legal challenge to the default retirement age (DRA). Mike Emmott, employee relations adviser, CIPD "Hopefully the government will realise sooner rather than later that  More...
05 March 2009 13:17

The Employers Forum on Age has accused the European Court of Justice (ECJ) of being "behind the times" following its decision to refer the Heyday legal challenge to the default retirement age back to the UK High Court. The ECJ decision means that  More...
05 March 2009 11:11

A decision in the Heyday case on whether employers can lawfully force people to retire at the age of 65 has been thrown back to the UK High Court. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has clarified policy in the EU directive upon which age regulations  More...
05 March 2009 09:23