Nearly a third of employees have seen age discrimination at work

Research from The Employers Forum on Age (EFA) has discovered that 16.6mn people in Britain (61%) in employment have been aware of ageist behaviour happening in their workplace. Almost a third (31%) said they’d worked somewhere where an older person doing exactly the same role as a younger person was being paid more due to their age. According to the EFA, “It’s official: ageism is alive and kicking in British companies”