Virgin Atlantic recently posted a photo of Marie on their Facebook page. Marie celebrated her 80th birthday and still works for the company.
Virgin said, "Marie joined us in 2007 after she had to retire from another airline, and at 80 is still a treasured part of the Virgin family. There's no age limit to any of our roles, so if you're ready to take on the world, we'd love to hear from you."
The post generated hundreds of comments with people praising Marie and also praising Virgin Atlantic for employing people of different ages. One person posted, "This is fabulous. Well done Virgin for not being age discriminative."
- Marie had to retire form another company - why?
- Why do you think Virgin employed a worker who had previously retired?
- How do you get a job? what is the process?
- Do you think Marie thought she would be successful in her application?
- Virgin say, "Marie is a treasured part of the Virgin family" what does that mean?
- "There is no age limit to any of our roles, so if you're ready to take on the world, we'd love hear from you" What does this mean?
- "Well done Virgin for not being age discriminative." what does that mean?
- What law in the UK protects people because of their age?
- What other groups of people are protected in the Equality Act 2010? (age, religion or belief, disability, race, sexual orientation, sex, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership)
- What can we learn from Marie?
- What can we learn from Virgin?
- Why is this about No Outsiders?
In the No Outsiders scheme there is a great lesson plan based on the picture book "The truth about old people" by Elina Ellis that would compliment this assembly.
www.no-outsiders.com
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