Employers are generally familiar with the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which prohibits discrimination against employees age 40 and older on the basis of age. In 2009,
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“A Bar Too High” And Other Pretexts For Discrimination
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Reorganization, reduction in force (“RIF”), merger of departments – these are only a few reasons which employers give when firing an employee – and which is frequently alleged to be …
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“Senioritis”
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We have compiled a long list of words or terms used by employers to describe older employees — which the employees have later used in court as direct evidence of…
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UK Government Job Website Ads Seek “Ambitious Young People”: Anyone See A Problem?
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The BBC has just reported that numerous age discriminatory ads appear on the UK government’s Universal Jobmatch website, which is used by millions seeking jobs.
“Recent graduates” are sought in…
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70-Year Old Attorney Put On “Do Not Use” List By Staffing Firm: EEOC Suit
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Someone failed to advise a NY legal staffing company about a little thing known as the ADEA – the Age Discrimination In Employment Act.
Apparently it “rejected a 70-year-old attorney…
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Senate Tries Once Again To Overturn Gross
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The Supreme Court in a 2009 decision called Gross changed the well-settled burden of proof used in so-called “mixed motive” cases, by which if an employee showed that discrimination was…
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“The Kid” Sues Alleging She Was Fired For Being Too Young
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A number of times (most recently last week) we have written about age discrimination, and the different comments which employers have made in lieu of coming right out and…
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Company Fires “An Old Penny That Keeps Coming Back?”
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Lets add some new expressions to our ever-growing lexicon of age-related discriminatory remarks. How about the following: “as old as the woodworks” and “an old penny that keeps coming back.” …
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Referring To A Fired 62 Year Old Employee As An “Old Dinosaur”: Is This Direct or Indirect Evidence of Age Discrimination?
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A sixty-two year old employee who worked for a steakhouse in Florida was fired for alleged performance reasons. However, he sued and claimed that he had direct evidence that he was…
Two Age Cases Illustrate How Not To Treat Older Applicants or Employees
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Age discrimination has explicitly been on the top of the EEOC’s agenda for almost a year, what with an aging workforce and a growing number of age charges filed. Two…
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