Change the record | Worker sues firm for not playing enough 'old music'

Age discrimination in the workplace can take on many forms, but perhaps one of the more surreal is a worker accusing his firm of committing ageism by playing music that's too modern.

As reported by the Daily Mail, Fitzroy Gaynes took Third Space, an upmarket gym chain with branches in the likes of Soho, Mayfair and Marylebone, to an employment tribunal because the music played in the gym was no older than 18 months.

Gaynes, a 64-year-old male, claimed that in doing so, the business he’d worked at since 2001 was committing age discrimination against him.

However, his claim has been thrown out by an employment tribunal, after the company successfully argued that modern music was part of its “emphasis on image and modernity”, and that older songs “do not sound as good when played on new sound systems”.