RETIRING GRACEFULLY: AGE DISCRIMINATION, RETIREMENT AND EU AW
Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union Law and Employment Law, University of Cambridge
September 17, 2011
•British pensions (low and means tested) introduced in 1908 mainly for women as an alternative to poor relief •Beveridge proposed flexible retirement but Atlee government disagreed...
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EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: WHEN THE LAW ISN’T ENOUGH
Trevor Phillips OBE, Chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission
September 16, 2011
....I want to say thank you to the lawyers; and second, I want to quote from the Guardian newspaper. It's from an editorial on November 10th 2005 reflecting on the course of race relations forty years on from the passage of the first recogn...
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THE TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS AT WORK
Dr Virginia Mantouvalou, UCL, Faculty of Laws
September 16, 2011
1. Human rights at work: Bridging the gap between civil and political rights and economic and social rights? a) Access to work b) Fair working conditions c) Protection from unfair dismissal d) Trade union rights 2. The ex...
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