Members trying to come to grips with the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 can find information on the Evesheds website www.eversheds.com. (Drill down via ‘Services and Sectors’ to ‘human resources’ and ’employment law’ to find a list of articles published in this area.)

One of the most useful is entitled, ‘Age Regulation – an insight into how employers are responding to the issues’ (issued 24 October) which reports the results of a survey of 150 organisations. Each section begins with a very brief summary of the Regulations, and ends with a section entitled ‘implications and actions’