For employers - Guides

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A wealth of material has been prepared and published to help employers understand and prepare for the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (also known as the Age Discrimination Regulations or the Age Regs for short). Government departments, agencies, employers’ groups, trade associations, employment law firms, professional bodies, commercial training providers and others have produced a wide variety of information and resources – and these are being continually added to.

Some of these guides are listed on the Useful Links section of the site, under the name of the organisation which has produced them. In some instances, however, the guides are only available to members of that organisation.

The one ‘must-read’ item is the Acas guide for employers Age and the workplace – Putting the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 into practice. Although it does not represent statutory guidance, Employment Tribunals are likely to benchmark an employer’s policies and practices against those recommended in this guide when any cases come before them.

The annexes in the guide also provide invaluable practical information about how to set about the task of eliminating age discrimination from employment policies and practices – as well as providing a useful flowchart to the ‘Fair Retirement’ process and a set of ‘model’ letters that employers can use.

A companion set of resources are available from the ‘Be Ready’ campaign which the Department for Work and Pension’s Age Positive team commissioned. And the Department for Trade and Industry has also produced eight specific topic guides on key aspects of the Regulations (go to Useful Links)

We have also produced Guides on aspects of the Regulations including those applying to Exemptions, Redundancy, Retirement and Pensions – although these have primarily been written with individuals in mind.