Challenges of Active Ageing Equality Law and the Workplace
This edited collection takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the ‘Active Ageing’ agenda to enable readers to consider the implications of this phenomenon for the law, the workplace, and for working lives from a holistic perspective. Challenges of Active
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CHALLENGES OF ACTIVE AGEING Equality Law and the Workplace
Challenges of Active Ageing
Simonetta Manfredi • Lucy Vickers Editors
Challenges of Active Ageing Equality Law and the Workplace
Editors Simonetta Manfredi Oxford Brookes University Oxford, United Kingdom
Lucy Vickers Oxford Brookes University Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-53249-7 ISBN 978-1-137-53251-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53251-0
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To our children Wishing them happy ageing
Foreword
When discrimination on the grounds of age was identified as a protected characteristic by Directive 2000/78, the EU Member States were forced to address some difficult issues. As a society, we are highly age-conscious. Newspapers print contributors’ ages (‘Mary, 56, says …’) but never a person’s sexual orientation, colour or religion, unless of relevance to the story. A large number of rules are (still) age-dependent (individuals need to be 16 to marry, 17 to drive, 18 to vote and 65 to receive a state pension, 75 to get a free TV licence and 100 to receive a letter from the Queen). Some of these rules reflect the fact that with age comes experience, and a number of employment practices are premised on this basis. Long(er) service may bring with it greater pay and benefits and increasing protection by employment law. The prohibition against age discrimination has perturbed the established order. Age is different for another reason. Age, unlike sex and race, is constantly changing. I am younger today than I will be tomorrow. Age is thu
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