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Free Guide - Dealing with Age Discrimination Legislation
 Are
you unsure about whether your business is
meeting the age discrimination legislation
that came into force in October 2006? If so
you are one of many! However, a new free
guide published by the Chartered Institute
of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the
TUC can help you to make sure you are
following the law correctly.
‘Developing a new mindset on age and
retirement’ aims to provide comprehensive
guidance across all aspects of the new age
regulations that came into force last
October. Before any writing of the guide
took place, the two organisations carried
out a series of focus groups across the UK
to find out exactly what about the new
regulations was concerning employers and
unions.
The guide is based on what the focus groups
identified as key concerns, one of which was
confusion around employees sending each
other birthday cards in case these were seen
as ageist.
Sarah Veale, the TUC’s head of equality and
employment rights said: “Age discrimination
is bad for business and ageist remarks can
make work unbearable for the person on the
receiving end. Lots of weird and wonderful
myths were put about when the age
regulations were first introduced. This
guide will help employers and unions better
understand the new laws and put them into
action in the workplace."
Dianah Worman OBE, CIPD Diversity Adviser
comments: “Employers should not think that
graduate recruitment schemes and practices
that reward loyalty are automatically
unfairly discriminatory; it is making sure
they are free from unfair age bias that is
important. The guide reflects the business
case for employing older workers and should
give a boost to their recruitment and
retention in the workplace.”
The guide covers retirement; recruitment,
selection and promotion; pay, benefits and
pensions; health and safety; redundancy; and
harassment.
For the full guide visit the CIPD here.
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visit our You and Work portal here.
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