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The Federal Court has increased an employee's damages for age discrimination from $20k to $90k, and added an order for economic loss, after finding he had suffered "considerable loss of amenity of life".

The MUR Shipping Australia chief accountant claimed that in 2018 the employer unlawfully discriminated against him and breached his employment contract because of his age.

The employer had asked him when he intended to retire – he was 68 at the time – and he felt compelled to give a date, naming July 2019, he said...