Information & advice

The following groups of people have protection under the law:

In employment:

• employees
• self-employed people
• office holders (for example, company directors, clergy)
• contract and agency workers
• job applicants
• former employees
• members of occupational pension funds

 

In education:

• people applying for adult, further or higher education, or training
• students in adult, further or higher education, or training
• former students in adult, further or higher education, or training

 

In other areas:

• people using career guidance services
• people applying for a professional qualification
• members of trade unions or professional associations.

 

Volunteers

Volunteers don’t have protection from discrimination. Unpaid work will be covered if it’s undertaken as part of a training course and unpaid office holders will have protection, but only if they are government appointed, for example magistrates.

 

Free mini-guide to age discrimination at work

You can download all the information in this section in our mini-guide to age discrimination, or you can order a copy  from our freephone Information Line on 0800 00 99 66.

Find out more about the age discrimination law

 

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