Age UK, Britain’s leading charity for the elderly, has been ordered to pay compensation after being found guilty of age discrimination. An employment tribunal said the organisation, which claims to want ‘a world where everyone can love later life’, must pay more than £4,000 to a 58-year-old job applicant who was found to have been wrongly treated. Alexander Cubbin sued the charity after being rejected from the role of brand asset designer despite his application never even being considered. An administrative error meant that Cubbin received a “generic email” telling him he had been unsuccessfu…
