Niall Crowley, CEO Equality Authority highlighted "the age ground predominantly involves allegations of discrimination by older workers. Age limits in the workplace are the focus for many of these allegations including fixed retirement ages. It is clear from the casefiles that there are significant numbers of older people who do not want to be forced to retire. The emergence of the age ground as the highest area of casefiles under the Employment Equality Acts underpins the urgency in tackling the ageism that is all too prevalent in society."