Referring to a work colleague as a grandparent counts as age discrimination even if they are one, a tribunal has ruled.
Anne Dopson sued her employer, a publishing company, after a colleague wrote a car review in which she was described as “a grandmother”. She was 62 at the time.
The former sales director at Stag Publications in Hertfordshire told an employment tribunal she was upset when a Renault Kadjar was described as “comfy wheels” for a grandparent.
Dopson complained that even though she had three grandchildren at that point, the reference had been “a dig at my age” and “raised a laugh in the office”. She resigned from the £50,000-a-year role and brought legal proceedings against the publisher.
A judge has now ruled the
