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Age Discrimination, Redundancy Payments and Length of Service
Author(s) -
Sargeant Malcolm
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the modern law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.37
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-2230
pISSN - 0026-7961
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2009.00760.x
Subject(s) - redundancy (engineering) , payment , contradiction , seniority , actuarial science , service (business) , economic justice , economics , business , law and economics , political science , law , computer science , marketing , finance , philosophy , epistemology , operating system
This note discusses three cases which have considered objective justification for the apparent contradiction between rewarding age and length of service in redundancy payments and the need not to discriminate on the grounds of age. It considers the relevance of cases from the European Court of Justice about whether there can be a general exception to the need to justify using the criterion of length of service, or seniority, in equal pay cases.