Way back in September 2013 we wrote that age cases would not be age cases if not for the vast number of creative ways employers refer to employees as “old.”
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Today’s Society “Masks Its Bias By Celebrating Those Who Age In Ways That Seem To Defy Physical Reality”
We know that the population is aging. This is reflected in the workforce, and in the increasing number of charges are age bias.
In discussing “The Normal Heart,” HBO’s adaptation
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“You Need To Wear More Make-Up Because Of Your Wrinkles” – Employer Settles For $300,000
You may remember the epithet in the title above from a post of ours from last year when an EEOC lawsuit was filed against a Long Island health insurance broker.
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“How’s His Shelf Life”: Is This Code For Age Discrimination?
This will be a short post about another case where an employee claimed that age discrimination was demonstrated by the use of some code words. We like to collect such
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“We Can’t Promote Him– He’s Over 50 And Doesn’t Have Enough Runway”
“Enough runway?” Need we say more?
Just the other day we wrote about a code phrase we had not heard of before used to disparage an older worker: “hang up
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“We Need Fresh Leadership” Held Not Ageist Code
We have made it a point to accumulate and publish age discrimination cases where code words for “old” were alleged to have been made.
On July 19th we wrote that
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Readers’ Comments On Our Post “Get It Together You F**king Old People!”
In last week’s post “Get It Together You F**king Old People!” we discussed a new case about an employer who said this to the only three administrative staff members over
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“Get It Together You F**king Old People!”
Yep, an employer said that to the only three administrative staff members over age 40, according to a new EEOC lawsuit brought against a Long Island health insurance broker.
Also
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