"It is disturbing to find, however, that all too often older teachers are being targeted for redundancy, threatened unjustly with capability procedures, denied access to professional development, or subjected to excessive monitoring in an attempt to force them out of the school," Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT teachers" union was quoted as saying in the NASUWT's press release.
"Too many" of British schools prefer to create space for younger teachers, because, first of all, younger educators get a lower salary than their older and more experienced counterparts, she added.
As the default retirement age was abolished in the United Kingdom in 2010, an employer has no right to practice job "ageism" and discriminate against workers on the grounds of their age only, according to the current United Kingdom labor law. Employers also cannot include strict age requirements in job advertisements, and should avoid any words that could set age limits.
