... justification in this context. Findings The paper reveals that the approach being adopted in retirement cases appears to be devaluing the age discrimination protections, through allowing individual, subjective reasons to justify less favourable treatment, despite the express wording of the Parent Directive...

... and well‐written articles which provided information on various aspects of age discrimination. Sargeant's (2004) “Mandatory retirement age and age discrimination” was particularly interesting as it provided an insight on a society (the USA) which has had age discrimination legislation for almost 40 years...