The Age Regulations - TAEN Guides

The TAEN Guides to the Age Regulations are primarily for individual employees, jobseekers and learners and aim to give a simple, clear explanation. They are neither a legal opinion nor a statement of Government views.

Click here for an Introduction to TAEN’s Guides

The topics covered by our Guides are:

1. The Scope of the Legislation – to whom the law applies.
2. Exemptions – potentially allowable age-based actions.
3. Recruitment
4. The Workplace – terms and conditions, promotion and career management.
5. Training
6. Redundancy
7. Retirement
8. Pensions
9. Comparators – in discrimination cases
10. Redress – dealing with a case of discrimination
    

TAEN has also published a simple guide to the Age Regulations. For a copy, click here