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Anti-age discrimination campaigners will press politicians today for greater measures to tackle the problem, claiming existing rules do not go far enough. PA News reports.

Last year saw a raft of measures addressing discrimination, with employers no longer able to use age as a justification.

It is illegal for companies and organisations to treat employees and job candidates differently due to age or deny training and education to older people.

The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations Act 2006, covering England, Scotland and Wales and the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) Act 2006, ban age-specific job adverts and decisions about employment based on age.

Older workers have protection from problems such as harassment in the workplace; being overlooked for promotion; lower salaries; poorer benefits; being sacked due to age; being turned down for a job because they are too old and being made redundant due to age.

Age cannot be used as a barrier to future opportunities such as training and pay rises.

Ministers are looking at how race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion and age can be brought together into a set of laws - the Single Equalities Bill.

April 18, 2007



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