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"The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to discriminate against employees, job seekers and trainees because of their age." [1] [1] http://www.acas.org.uk/inde
by andyjohnson0 12y ago
"The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to discriminate against employees, job seekers and trainees because of their age." [1]
[1] http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1841 http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1841
- vasilipupkin 12y agoWait, UK only adopted this in 2010? Sorry, I am surprised by that
- philh 12y agoNot necessarily. That Act might be an update to a previously-existing one that also forbade gender discrimination.
- gaius 12y agoThe 2010 Act just merges the laws from the 1970s (equal pay, race relations, etc) into a single law. It was an exercise in tidying up the statute books.
- celticninja 12y agoThis is correct, age discrimination was the most recent addition to the anti-discrimination laws.
- andyjohnson0 12y agoThe Employment Equality (Age) Regulations [1] made age discrimination illegal beginning in 2006. Before that it was not illegal. The 2010 act, among other things, extended protection for age discrimination to other people such as prospective employees. I'm British, and the fact that we only got around to this in 2006 seems to me to be fairly shameful. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Equality_(Age)_Regulations_2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Equality_(Age)_Regul...
- vasilipupkin 12y agowell, we've got plenty of shameful things in the US that we haven't gotten around to fixing, so no worries