06 November 2008
Peter Hungerford-Welch, associate dean, The City Law School, City University London. www.city.ac.uk/law
The employers introduced a requirement that to be graded at the top grade, and to receive the higher salary linked to that grade, an employee had to have a law degree.
It was held that there is no basis for concluding that requiring a degree imposes any particular disadvantage on older persons.
