An employment tribunal has warned that words such as grandfather and grandmother could draw “detrimental” attention to someone’s ageReferring to a work colleague as a grandparent counts as age discrimination even if they are one, a tribunal has ruled. Anne Dopson sued her employer, a publishing company, after a colleague wrote a car review in which she was described as “a grandmother”. SponsoredThe former sales director at Stag Publications in Hertfordshire told an employment tribunal she was upset when a Renault Kadjar was described as “comfy wheels” for a grandparent. Dopson complained that even though she had three grandchildren at that point, the reference had been “a dig at my age” and “raised a laugh in the office”. She resigned from the £50,000-a-year role and brought legal proceedings against the publisher.

Source: The Times July 28, 2021 15:35 UTC