Extending Working Life for Older Workers

Age Discrimination Law, Policy and Practice

Alysia Blackham (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2016
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-0576-8 (ISBN)

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The UK population is ageing rapidly. While age discrimination laws are seen as having broad potential to address the ‘ageing challenge’ and achieve instrumental and intrinsic objectives in the context of employment, it is unclear what impact they are having in practice. This monograph addresses two overarching research questions in the employment field: How are UK age discrimination laws operating in practice? How (if at all) could UK age discrimination laws be improved? A reflexive law theoretical standpoint is employed to investigate these issues, applying a mixed methods research design that engages qualitative, quantitative, doctrinal and comparative elements. This book demonstrates the substantial limitations of the Equality Act 2010 (UK) for achieving instrumental and intrinsic objectives. Drawing on qualitative expert interviews, statistical analysis and organisational case studies, it illustrates the failure of age discrimination laws to achieve attitudinal change in the UK, and reveals the limited prevalence of proactive measures to support older workers. Integrating doctrinal analysis, comparative analysis of Finnish law, and the Delphi method, it proposes targeted legal and policy changes to address demographic change, and offers an agenda for reform that may increase the impact of age discrimination laws, and enable them to respond effectively to demographic ageing.

Runner up of the 2017 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. The author was also awarded the 2020 ISA-RCSL Adam Podgórecki Junior Prize.

Alysia Blackham is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne.

1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. A Doctrinal Critique of UK Age Discrimination Laws
4. Expert Perspectives on the Operation of Age Discrimination Laws
5. Generalising the Qualitative Findings—Quantitative Analysis of WERS6
6. A Comparative Perspective—The Case of Finland
7. Explaining the Quantitative Findings—Organisational Case Studies
8. Constructing Future Scenarios—The Delphi Method
9. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2016
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	542 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-5099-0576-6 / 1509905766
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-0576-8 / 9781509905768
Zustand	Neuware