Ryanair was today fined for breaching equality law when advertising a job for a 'young and dynamic professional'.
The £8,000 judgment is the first under the new Employment Equality Act (1998) and found the low cost budget airline had discriminated on age grounds in the job advertisement last March.
Equality Authority chief executive Niall Crowley described the ruling as an important judgment that focused on the almost casual and accepted discrimination experienced by older people in the work place.
In response, Ryanair stated that 'young' was a state of mind and not an actual age.
As well as paying compensation, Ryanair has been asked to review all its equal opportunity policies.
