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Age Discrimination
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Age discrimination, in a business context, is usually a question of an employer discriminating against an employee or an individual who applies to work for the company on the grounds of their age. A company would be guilty of discrimination, for example, if they refused to promote an employee on the basis that they were too old.
Employers have to conform to changes in legalisation that were set out in 2006 -- the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations. This means that employers have to make sure that they act fairly in various situations and that they do not use age as an issue when:
- Recruiting new staff
- Making people redundant
- Going through dismissal procedures
- Assessing employees for promotion
- Trying to get people to retire/take early retirement
There are some cases when an employer can use age as a consideration. They can, for example, set age limits for certain types of jobs if there is justification for doing this. In some cases age discrimination cases can be difficult to manage. Many employers are aware of their responsibilities here so will try to hide the fact that they are using age as an issue by using other reasons not to do something.
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