Discrimination claims | Offering a chair to older workers could amount to ageism, tribunal says

Offering a chair to an older colleague at work could count as age discrimination, an employment judge has ruled.

Filipe Edreira, a recycling plant worker, sued his former employer Severn Waste Water Service after he was asked to sit down during his shift.

Mr Edreira, who was 66 at the time of the incident in 2022, believed the company was trying to force him to retire, and claimed he was being singled out as no-one else at the site used chairs.

He had worked at the company for 17 years before he was sacked in October 2023.