Smith v Gartner UK Ltd [2016] UKEAT/0279/15/LA

Age discrimination: Lessons from recent cases following six-fold surge in claims

John Bracken analyses three cases which highlight some of the perils employers face when making management decisions about older members of their workforce Whether employers are making redundancy, promotion or more general day-to-day decisions, they should not disregard the risk of age discrimination simply because the employees concerned are of fairly similar ages. Age discrimination …

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Age Discrimination: Taking it literally

The wording of an employer’s policy meant it was merely obliged to provide PHI, not to ensure the employee actually received payments, write Helen Roberts and Rebecca Harding-Hill ‘The decision does reflect the reality of the circumstances where employees are denied benefit because they were ill and claiming under the employer’s existing scheme when a …

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