 It's the biggest workplace shake-up for 30 years |
This week on Breakfast, we've been looking at the new age discrimination law and how it will affect workers, managers and businesses. The new rules, which come into force this Sunday, could mean a quiet revolution in the way we work.
They'll put an end to the assumption in some jobs that you're over the hill at 50 - or even 40. And they'll also give new rights for those just starting out in their careers.
This morning (Friday) on Breakfast:
As chambers of commerce warned that the new laws are a major distraction for small businesses, we talked live to the Trade and Industry Alastair Darling
Earlier this week:
Tuesday 26 September
How do you implement the new age discrimination rules without damaging your business?
Will they mean, for instance, that workers who've gone stale in their jobs can no longer be eased out? Or abolishing coveted long service awards like extra holiday entitlement?
We went to Warburton's bakery in Bolton for the second of our special reports
Monday 25 September
 Application forms at Warburtons are now age-neutral |
Tim Muffett looked at how the new laws could revolutionise our working lives, with the first of three special reports from Warburton's Bakery in Bolton Our business presenter Declan Curry took a look at the new laws
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Breakfast's intterview with Alastair Darling 
I am 60 and just qualified as a nurse (the oldest student in the UK?) .. am now about to start full-time work on the wards. No sign of age-discrimination so far, though near-to-retirement nurses think I must be mad 
