With less than a year to go to before the long-awaited Employment Equality (Age) Regulations come into force, many of the country’s in-house lawyers are still in the dark about the how the legislation will work in practice.
Much of the uncertainty is that while, as ever, the devil of the new legislation is in the detail, the final regulations are not due to be published until January. And, as the delegates at the Legal Week Benchmarker/Simmons & Simmons roundtable on age discrimination heard from Sam Mercer, director of the Employers’ Forum on Age (EFA), this may be further delayed until March, leaving companies and their corporate counsel with little more than six months to grapple with the nitty-gritty of the new legislation.
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