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Employment Equality (Age) Regulations - 24 October 2006
Effective from 1 October 2006 all businesses must comply with new legislation outlawing discrimination on the grounds of age or face the probability of expensive legal action. The new rules mean it is now illegal for companies to specify an age when advertising a vacancy, or even to request applications from 'young' or 'mature' people.
The Regulations also make it illegal to discriminate against employees, job seekers and trainees because of their age.
A recent survey(conducted in August 2006) indicated that 23% of companies currently specify maximum recruitment ages and 13% use age to fix a starting salary - this is now illegal
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