Age Discrimination - Your expereinces

I am trying to make some sense of the age discrimination laws and how employers are dealing with them. Any experiences would be welcome. I am finding vastly different approaches in areas such as:

• retirement age
• applications to extend working life and reactions
• pensions
• employee insurance
• experience based pay increases
• blocks on training courses
• refusal to consider younger applications job as well as older ones

In fact anything. I will feed back my findings and, hopefully, give a little guidance on keeping out of trouble.

More holidays

I notice that the DTI have published their proposals to increase the minimum holiday entitlement from 20 days to 28 days. You will recall that the minimum is 20 days and some employers include the 8 bank holidays in that.
We are way behind some of our European friends although ahead of most American companies.
The changes will be a minimum of 24 days after 1st October 2007 and a minimum of 28 days after 1st October 2008.
I am sure this will impact on the costs of many companies.