| Age prejudice is most common form of discrimination |
Survey finds almost one-third of respondents have been affected
Date: 15 September 2005
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| Why sixty is the new forte |
What’s the best age to be working? Recent research may persuade employers to rethink the concept of careers – and to stop cherry-picking workers from a particular age group
Date: 24 February 2005
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| After all, it’s only a number |
Age was a key concern of many of this year’s speakers, with several urging firms to take advantage of ‘grey power’, while not forgetting baby boomers and younger workers
Steve Crabb reports from the CIPD annual conference
Date: 11 November 2004
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| Professional standards research: age discrimination |
Outdated views are not the only cause of ageism in the workplace
Date: 28 October 2004
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| Why we’ll need to engage ‘grey power’ |
'The single most important issue facing business today is demographics – and how they are changing'
Date: 28 October 2004
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| Ageism rife in UK workplace |
There is only a five-year period in our lives when we are unlikely to be judged as too young or too old for a job
Date: 15 January 2004
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| Unwanted older workers forced into new roles |
Time taken to find re-employment - and flexibility over type of job – increase with age
Date: 05 August 2003
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| Employability decreases with age of employee |
Anne-Marie Greene rounds up the latest HRM studies
Date: 21 February 2002
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| Shunning older workers ‘costs billions’ |
Failure to make most of older workers knocked £31 billion off the country’s GDP
Date: 03 May 2001
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| Make ageism a thing of the past |
Dianah Worman, adviser, equal opportunities, draws on recent CIPD research to highlight the issue of age discrimination
Date: 08 March 2001
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| The elder salesman |
Old faces win hands down when it comes to customer service
Date: 08 March 2001
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| Pessimism reigns on ageism |
Almost a quarter of respondents agreed that employers weren’t interested in recruiting or promoting people aged over 40
Date: 25 January 2001
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| Demographic equaliser |
The government is taking an increasingly strong line on ageism. Here, Margaret Hodge argues the business case against discrimination
Date: 25 May 2000
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| Report backs older workers |
Firms have again been criticised for not attracting and retaining older workers
Date: 19 August 1999
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| Report bears out age barrier |
The government’s latest Labour Market Trends report has confirmed that there is a discriminatory age barrier at work
Date: 23 July 1998
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| Minimum age for minimum wage? |
Thirty percent of employers support a lower wage for new starters
Date: 08 January 1998
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| Ageism hits one-third of workers |
Research showing the extent of age discrimination at work will add force to a crusade for legal redress, writes Rob MacLachlan
Date: 25 January 1996
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| Where to go from here? |
Age discrimination can affect everyone - older people, young people and women returning to work
Date: 11 January 1996
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| Never too old to learn or train |
Search for UK’s oldest newly qualified workers has been launched
Date: 12 January 1995
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| Lost opportunities for older employees |
Employers blamed for risking future acute labour shortages by adopting short-term policies on older workers
Date: 01 September 1991
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| Major ‘Third Age’ study to look at employment |
Study will cover employment, education and training as well as housing, transport and other issues
Date: 01 August 1991
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| The wider agenda for equal opportunities |
While extensive measures have been taken by the EC to promote equal opportunities between men and women, action to eliminate discrimination against other groups, such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and older people, has been more limited. Cherry Mill outlines the initiatives taken so far and the new programmes planned
Date: 01 March 1991
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| Attitudes to older workers improve |
Ageism declines although recession polarises views
Date: 01 February 1991
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| Employers still cling to ageist attitude despite staff deficit warnings |
Older people ignored despite looming staff shortages that threaten businesses
Date: 01 July 1990
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| Older people ‘positive’ about job challenge |
Forthcoming report on age and employment gives the lie to two stereotypes of older people
Date: 01 May 1990
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| Over-50s are a prime resource, argues CBI |
Recruitment problems caused by decline in numbers of young people 'won't end in the mid-1990s'
Date: 09 February 1989
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| Managers face age bias |
Much managerial talent in Wales is going to waste because employers are discriminating against older recruits
Date: 01 November 1988
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| In praise of older recruits |
Ceri Phillips, senior lecturer in economics at Gwent College of Higher Education, reports on a survey he undertook to find out about graduate employers’ attitudes towards the recruitment of mature students
Date: 01 January 1987
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