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The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/2408) is a piece of Secondary Legislation in the United Kingdom , which prohibits employers unreasonably discriminating against employees on grounds of age. The Regulations follow a very similar structure to existing legislation concerning sex, race, and religion. They provide a broad justification defence and a wide range of exceptions which have been criticised for undermining the concept of discrimination law by providing too many compromises on what would otherwise be unlawful. Significant issues addressed by the legislation include the provision of a national default retirement age set at 65 (to be retained for at least 5 years) and the ability for employees to request work beyond the retirement age following procedure in schedule 6 of the Regulations. It came into force on October 1 , 2006 . As the most recent addition to a long line of discrimination provisions the Age Regulations provide the most diluted piece of legislation to date. The emphasis of the regulations seems to focus on things that an employer will be permitted to do rather than on what will be unlawful and as such suggests that the fundamental ethos of equal treatment is trumped by economic, business or social policy considerations. SEE ALSO REFERENCES |
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