Age Discrimination Solicitors
Age bias has no place in the workplace. If you have been discriminated against because of your age, we’ll help you seek justice.
Age discrimination is when you are treated differently or unfairly because of your age.
The Equality Act 2010 lists a number of characteristics that are protected under the Act.
If you experience discrimination against any of these characteristics, you will be protected by law. Age is one of the protected characteristics. This means that you may be able to claim compensation if you have faced age discrimination at work.
The discrimination can either be a one-off event, harassment, victimisation, or a policy or rule in your workplace that dictates what you should or shouldn’t do compared to other employees. Age discrimination can happen at any point in your employment, and at any age. You could be treated unfairly during recruitment, passed over for promotion, or be chosen for redundancy before others.
If you have experienced this kind of treatment, you might be eligible to make an age discrimination claim. We can help you do it.
Examples of age discrimination
We can help you if you have been treated differently because:
- You are (or are not) a certain age, or in a certain age group
- Someone has incorrectly assumed your age (known as discrimination by perception)
- You are connected to someone of a certain age, or in a certain age group (known as discrimination by association).
And if you have suffered any of the following types of age discrimination:
- Direct discrimination – when you specifically are treated worse than someone else because of your age
- Indirect discrimination – where there’s a policy or rule at your workplace that puts you at a specific disadvantage because of your age
- Harassment – when you are made to feel humiliated, offended or degraded because of your age
- Victimisation – when you are treated badly after making a complaint about age discrimination or supporting a colleague’s complaint about discrimination.
Some specific differences in treatment because of age may be lawful, but we’ll discuss this with you if it relates to your case.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your first step should usually be to raise your concerns directly with your employer and give them the chance to resolve the issue internally. If this doesn’t lead to a conclusion that you are happy with, you can start the formal grievance process.
If this doesn’t achieve the outcome you wanted, we can take it to the Employment Tribunal, beginning with the ACAS early conciliation process. ACAS helps you and your employer to try and settle the dispute out of court. This process can take a month and can be extended by two extra weeks if you and your employer agree.
When the ACAS early conciliation process ends, you will be given an ACAS certificate. If your dispute is still unresolved at this point, you can issue a claim in the Employment Tribunal. Your employer will get a copy of your claim and they have 30 days to send their defence.
The Tribunal will then set a date for a full hearing in six to nine months, during which, we’ll work with you to prepare your case. Going through the full Employment Tribunal process may feel daunting, but we’ve been through it many times before, so we’ll support and guide you through each step.
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