Organizational reactions to UK age discrimination legislation

Employee Relations

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 471-488

  Parry, Emma ^a   Tyson, Shaun ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age discrimination; Employment legislative; Human resource management; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349610775     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450910979239     Document Type: Article

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