Lunchtime Links: Someone is making 50k a year bringing fake age discrimination claims

It doesn't concern banks specifically, but it could easily apply to them. According to The Telegraph, Essex-based lawyer Gordon Turner has unearthed a serial age discrimination litigant who appears to be earning up to 50k a year bringing claims.

Turner, who also runs the website www.serial-litigants.com , says individuals such as this are receiving settlements of 500-2,000 from employers who want to get them off their backs. "This guy simply types 'recent graduate' into Google and brings claims against a few of the companies advertising jobs with this wording," Turner tells us. "It's a brilliant business model - he creates a disproportionate nuisance of himself and then offers an easy way out."

To avoid such litigants, Turner advises banks and recruitment firms advertising for "recent graduates" to append the words 'of any age' to their advertisement text.

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