First Age Discrimination Victory!
by Philip
Well the first finding of Age Discrimination has been made and it involves a 20 year old, apparently fired for being too young to handle client complaints. The employee worked at a private members club in London called the 8 members club which has 800 members. Read about it here
It’s a salutary reminder to all employers that just because an employee has less than a year’s service, does not mean that he or she can’t come back and bite, particularly where any performance short comings have not been documented.
The ray of hope for the employer is that the award is likely to be low as the employee mitigated her losses pretty quickly, finding a new job, paying more, shortly after she was fired. It’s not a nice first though for the employer, being the first employer to discriminate on grounds of age (or at least the first to be caught)!
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