That this House welcomes the publication of the Government's consultation on a code of practice for age diversity in employment to show how businesses and employers can take steps to ensure they choose, retain and develop the best person for the job by eliminating the use of age as an employment criterion; and calls upon the Government to do its utmost to publicise the Code, make it widely available and monitor closely its effectiveness with a view to promoting good practice and fostering a culture of challenging and defeating ageist attitudes in employment wherever they occur.

That this House welcomes the publication of the Government's consultation on a code of practice for age diversity in employment to show how businesses and employers can take steps to ensure they choose, retain and develop the best person for the job by eliminating the use of age as an...

That this House condemns Lurot Brand House Sales's action in placing a job advertisement in the Sunday Times on 12th July 1998 seeking a senior negotiator who is "likely to be someone we already know in the profession, public school educated"; believes the advertisement to be discriminatory against women, ethnic minorities and the majority of the population who have not had the dubious benefit of private education, and a crude attempt further to perpetuate class division in society; and calls on the Government to consider taking such measures as are necessary to ensure such advertisements cannot be placed in national newspapers or elsewhere in the future.

That this House condemns Lurot Brand House Sales's action in placing a job advertisement in the Sunday Times on 12th July 1998 seeking a senior negotiator who is "likely to be someone we already know in the profession, public school educated"; believes the advertisement to be discriminatory against women, ethnic...