<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Age discrimination</title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/</link><description /><language>en-gb</language><copyright /><generator /><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:30:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>Friday Podcast: Dual discrimination claims; no-win no-fee lawyer regulations; Personnel Today Power Players list</title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/07/03/50604/friday-podcast-dual-discrimination-claims-no-win-no-fee-lawyer-regulations-personnel-today-power-players-list.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/07/03/50604/friday-podcast-dual-discrimination-claims-no-win-no-fee-lawyer-regulations-personnel-today-power-players-list.html</guid><description>HR news and analysis including:  the Equality Bill amendment to allow dual discrimination cases; how regulating no-win no-fee lawyers would impact on HR; and we ask for your suggestions on</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Retirement age and the Heyday legal case</title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/07/02/47733/retirement-age-and-the-heyday-legal-case.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/07/02/47733/retirement-age-and-the-heyday-legal-case.html</guid><description>&lt;IFRAME style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid" src="http://www.dipity.com/Mike_Berry_/personal/embed_tl?bgcolo</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:57:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Recession puts older workers at risk</title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/07/02/51266/recession-puts-older-workers-at-risk.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/07/02/51266/recession-puts-older-workers-at-risk.html</guid><description>The impact the recession is having on the workforce is clear; many employers have been forced to make redundancies or pay cuts to survive. And there is growing evidence that some workers are being hit particularly hard.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:04:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Friday Podcast: Intra-company transfers; Heyday age discrimination case; Prejudice in the workplace</title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/06/26/50601/friday-podcast-intra-company-transfers-heyday-age-discrimination-case-prejudice-in-the-workplace.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/06/26/50601/friday-podcast-intra-company-transfers-heyday-age-discrimination-case-prejudice-in-the-workplace.html</guid><description>HR news and analysis including:  Lobby groups want the Home Office to crack down on intra-company transfers as they say they are an abuse of immigration legislation  &lt;DIV alig</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:47:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Heyday retirement age case High Court date set</title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/06/26/51200/heyday-retirement-age-case-high-court-date-set.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/06/26/51200/heyday-retirement-age-case-high-court-date-set.html</guid><description>The final stage in a three-year legal battle to scrap the default retirement age of 65 will begin at the High Court next month. The Heyday case, which began in December 2006, returns to the High Court</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Age discrimination and redundancy selection: Rolls Royce v Unite</title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/06/02/50938/age-discrimination-and-redundancy-selection-rolls-royce-v-unite.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/06/02/50938/age-discrimination-and-redundancy-selection-rolls-royce-v-unite.html</guid><description>Rolls Royce v Unite Facts Rolls Royce had entered into collective </description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:36:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MP Lynne Featherstone defends anonymous CVs plan</title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/05/26/50838/mp-lynne-featherstone-defends-anonymous-cvs-plan.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/05/26/50838/mp-lynne-featherstone-defends-anonymous-cvs-plan.html</guid><description>The MP who suggested names should be banned from job applications to prevent discrimination has stood by her proposal despite it attracting fierce criticism from the HR profession. Lynne Featherstone, Liberal Democrat MP an</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 11:27:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Default retirement age lined up by HR managers to aid job cuts </title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/05/21/50772/default-retirement-age-lined-up-by-hr-managers-to-aid-job-cuts.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/05/21/50772/default-retirement-age-lined-up-by-hr-managers-to-aid-job-cuts.html</guid><description>One in seven HR managers plans to use the default retirement age to help cut jobs, according t</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 11:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Friday Podcast: Police workforce modernisation, nameless CVs, Rolls-Royce loses age discrimination appeal</title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/05/15/50608/friday-podcast-police-workforce-modernisation-nameless-cvs-rolls-royce-loses-age-discrimination-appeal.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/05/15/50608/friday-podcast-police-workforce-modernisation-nameless-cvs-rolls-royce-loses-age-discrimination-appeal.html</guid><description>HR news and analysis including:  Police HR face a backlash from front-line officers for attempting to modernise the workforce; HR directors slam a potent</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:36:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nameless CV proposal slammed by HR chiefs</title><link>http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/05/15/50706/nameless-cv-proposal-slammed-by-hr-chiefs.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2009/05/15/50706/nameless-cv-proposal-slammed-by-hr-chiefs.html</guid><description>A radical proposal to ban names from job applications to prevent discrimination – backed in principle by the CIPD – has been slammed by HR chiefs as "bureaucratic" and "unworkable". &lt;A href="http://www.lynnefeath</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>