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Legislation came into force on 1st October 2006, which outlawed direct and indirect discrimination, victimisation and harassment on the basis of age. The legislation applies equally to young and older workers, but strangely still permits the use of age banding for the National Minimum Wage?! The most far-reaching of any discrimination laws (as everyone has an age!), this predominantly impacts on redundancy selection criteria, the retirement process, and recruitment and selection; but will also have knock-on impacts on performance management and company benefits such as enhanced holiday or sick pay entitlements. Despite our expectation that statutory redundancy payments would also be affected, it seems that again the Government decided it was too complex (or is that costly) to change the banding for redundancy pay entitlements, and so they stay the same regardless of age!
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