1. Compensation in age discrimination cases is considerably lower than in other areas of discrimination. Why do you think this is so?
2. Should the government permit organisations to reintroduce a default retirement age for their workers?
3. Mark Cameron commented, ‘The City is getting far better at supporting and developing female staff.’ To what extent do you think this is true for organisations in other sectors? Give examples.
4. Anti-sex-discrimination legislation has been in place since the mid-1970s. Consider why sex discrimination cases such as Bouabdillah v Commerzbank [2013] still arise. Can the law alone eradicate the problem of sexism in the workplace? Similarly how optimistic are you that the law can successfully eliminate ageism at work?

Age discrimination is now seen as a more widespread problem in the City than sex discrimination, a survey of more than 1,600 finance sector workers has found. While more than one-third of City employees said their employer was ‘very committed’ to gender diversity, less than a quarter felt the company was similarly committed to fighting age discrimination. The research also confirmed that problems over discrimination and lack of commitment to diversity were most likely to arise in areas such as trading and sales rather than within the middle or back office functions. ‘The City is getting far better at supporting and developing female staff,’ said Mark Cameron, chief operating officer at Astbury Marsden, a financial services recruiter, which carried out the survey. He added: ‘The huge effort that London’s financial services sector has made to broaden its workforce is clearly reflected in positive feedback we have had from employees’.