Age Discrimination Handbook
Author: Declan O'Dempsey, Schona Jolly and Andrew Harrop
Esential reading for employment lawyers and advisers, voluntary sector organisations, tribunal chairs, trade unionists and human resources specialists.
Full Price: £35
Edition: 1st (October 2006) 760pp
Content
Age discrimination is the most widespread form of discrimination in the workplace. It can be overt and deliberate, or it can be subtle and unintentional. It can take the form of individual decisions made by employers or colleagues, or be embedded into the policies and systems of an organisation. Importantly, age discrimination can affect people of any age.
The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations in force from October 2006 implement the EU Framework Directive on Equal Treatment in Employment and Occupation and make discrimination on the grounds of age unlawful in employment and education. Employers are no longer permitted to use age as a criterion for recruitment, promotion, training and termination, and significant changes have come into force that affect retirement, pay and benefits and pension schemes.
The Age Discrimination Handbook is a comprehensive, yet practical, guide to the new law. There is expert guidance on the regulations with extensive cross-references to other strands of anti-discrimination law. Particular attention is given to the various loopholes, justifications and exceptions that are specific to this type of discrimination law and will present challenges even to the most experienced adviser.
Age Discrimination Handbook draws on the authors' involvement in the formulation of the regulations, the tensions between EU and UK law and Age Concern's experience in supporting victims of ageism to inspire advisers with arguments to support their clients.
Contents include:
- EU law
- Types of discrimination
- Age discrimination justifications
- Exceptions to the regulations
- The recruitment process
- Pay and non-pay benefits
- Pensions
- Retirement
- Bringing a claim
- Remedies in employment
- Age discrimination in education
- The background to the law and likely future
There is a wealth of practical tools: each chapter begins with a checklist of key points and contains examples, summaries, tactical guidance, ideas on evidence gathering and a step-by-step guide to bringing a claim.
This book is accompanied by a comprehensive website hosted by Age Concern: www.ageconcern.org.uk/agediscriminationlaw. The site covers:
- Amendments to the regulations made after 1 October 2006 (for example, amended pension provisions expected in December 2006)
- Updates on domestic and European case-law
- Useful statistics and sources of evidence to support applications
- Worked examples covering a range of employment scenarios of the steps that need to be taken to identify evidence of discrimination, prepare an application, and rebut defences from employers
- Details on ordering further copies
- Links to resources on age discrimination
Sample chapter
Chapter one (pdf: 226Kb)
ISBN
/ ISSN
: Pb 978 1 903307 48 9
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