Non-Discrimination: News from AGE members
This is a place for AGE members to provide details of the developments which are taking place on non-discrimination in their Member States and to share information on the actions that their organisations are taking to combat age discrimination at national level.
If you would like to add a contribution, please send your information to Anne Mélard, Information and Communication Officer,
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Finland:
France:
- The HALDE (Haute Autorité de Lutte contre les Discriminations et pour l'Egalité) dealt with a case where an older employee was not allowed to buy additional semesters to get a better pension because he was older than 60. HALDE considers that older people should be able to buy back such time and recommends the abrogation of the condition of age.
For more information, please click here.
Portugal:
- Although Portugal maintains the employment rate of older adults above the desirable (50.6%) this rate has fallen 0.9% since 2002. To reverse this situation, the recently approved "Labour Relations" either exempt or reduce taxes for unemployed people aged 55 and over who return to the labour market and also for their employers. The document also states that grandmothers are allowed to take leave to care for their grandchildren.
Please click here for the list of incentives and the full document.
Slovakia:
- The Slovak National Centre for Human Rights and Fórum pre pomoc starším have conducted research on the ‘Poverty and social exclusion of elderly people: results of empirical investigation’. Please click here for their research findings.
UK:
- For a comprehensive overview of the most recent developments in the UK on non-discrimination and age, click here to access the TAEN website.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 10:33
