HR news and analysis, including: Find out who was the overall winner at Personnel Today’s glittering awards ceremony  on 27 November – and listen to why they thought they won the coveted trophy We discuss how recent developments in the Sh  More...
28 November 2008 17:52

The woman who earned up to £100,000 by accusing 22 companies of ageism has had her latest claims thrown out of court, it has emerged. Margaret Keane, aged 50, was yesterday told she was a "serial litigator" who had no interest in applying for the jo  More...
26 November 2008 13:12

Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police v Homer Facts Mr Homer worked for West Yorkshire Police (the force) for 30 years as a police officer. In 1995, following his retirement as a serving officer, he commenced employment with the force as a  More...
21 November 2008 18:06

Personnel Today's drive to force the government to commit to scrapping the default retirement age (DRA) has stepped up a gear after receiving support from leading age campaigner Baroness Sally Greengross. She will be pushing for a debate in th  More...
21 November 2008 17:21

Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: advice from a senior HR director about the function’s role during the economic downturn how a hotel chain is preparing for the UK losing its opt-out to the Working Time Di  More...
21 November 2008 16:50

One of the UK's first high-profile female broadcasters has been appointed by the government as the "Voice of Older People". Dame Joan Bakewell, who shot to fame as a presenter with the BBC's Late Night Line-Up in the 1960s, will act as an "indep  More...
11 November 2008 10:49

Payouts for equal pay, unfair dismissal, and religious and sexual orientation discrimination jumped as total employment tribunal payouts hit £32m in 2006-07, new statistics have revealed. A Freedom of Information Act request by the Sunday Telegr  More...
10 November 2008 10:10

The Ministry of Justice has been hit by 500 age discrimination claims as the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) ramps up its pay campaign in the Civil Service. The PCS claims a pay system introduced last year discriminates against younger me  More...
06 November 2008 16:23

I seem to be a lone voice in the wilderness, but why have many HR practitioners leapt on the 'scrap the default retirement age (DRA)' bandwagon? If keeping someone beyond their 65th birthday, or indeed starting them as a new employee, is good  More...
03 November 2008 10:42

There was something of a scrap about compulsory retirement when the government was drafting the age legislation that came in to force in October 2006 . The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) wanted the idea dropped, arguing that putting an arbitrary c  More...
23 October 2008 16:37

Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: 98% of those losing their jobs in the three months to August are men; Is HR partly to blame for some of the banks' troubles? And Personnel Today launches a new campaign to  More...
17 October 2008 15:50

Trade union Unite has secured a landmark age discrimination ruling against Rolls-Royce that should give older workers across the UK greater protection from redundancies. The engineering firm had argued that taking long service into accoun  More...
17 October 2008 15:35

Leading HR directors have backed a campaign by Personnel Today and the Employers Forum on Age to force the government to commit to remove the default retirement age in 2011. A growing number of employers have ditched the default retirement a  More...
17 October 2008 09:36

Your letter last week from Anne Riley of Penna partly defeats its object ('Default retirement age is well past its sell-by date', Personnel Today , 7 October). While I agree with her sentiments, I resent being called a 'veteran'. Surely s  More...
13 October 2008 17:26

The Employers Forum on Age has welcomed the decision to scrap the retirement age for junior ranks of the Civil Service, announced by the Cabinet Office last week. Whitehall departments and the Council of Civil Service Unions have agreed that employm  More...
06 October 2008 09:37

I have been following with great interest Age Concern's battle with the European Court of Justice to banish the compulsory retirement age of 65 ('Heyday retirement age decision "hugely disappointing" for staff', Personneltoday.com, 24 September).   More...
03 October 2008 17:02

Ditch the Retirement Age Personnel Today is supporting a campaign by the Employers Forum on Age (EFA) to force the government to commit to remove the default retirement age (DRA) in 2011. So now's the time for HR professiona  More...
03 October 2008 00:00

The legal challenge against the UK's mandatory retirement age is far from over, Heyday has warned. The advocate-general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled last week that the compulsory retirement age of 65 was lawful, despite the campaig  More...
02 October 2008 00:01

One in five Tesco employees are now aged over 50, the supermarket giant has revealed. A 154% rise on the number of over-50s employed by the retail giant in its UK stores compared with 10 years ago, brings the current total to 54,545. Some of this gro  More...
01 October 2008 09:22

Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: A survey of 5,000 HR professional shows men earn 20% more than their female colleagues We look at what the European Court of Justice advocate general's decision means fo  More...
26 September 2008 15:16