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Indeed, there are 50,000 reasons to avoid “age will matter” in an applicant’s rejection email.

Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash Remember that blog post I had last Spring. I’m talking about the one about an employment agency that allegedly emailed a job applicant the following cringe-worthy, what we’re really saying here is “sue me” rejection email: “Thanks for your reply. I check the details of [sic] you. And…

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Sorry. I’ll make it up to you today.

When this happened, you knew that I had to do some celebrating. Twice. So, the fam and braved the long lines (during which my young children got quite a vocabulary lesson) and headed into Philadelphia on Thursday for the Philadelphia Eagles parade. Just us and a few million strangers. But, football season is over. I’ve…

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Older workers need not apply. Heck, they’re not even seeing many job ads on Facebook, lawsuit alleges.

Hundreds of large employers, including Amazon, T-Mobile US, and Cox Communications allegedly engaged in the unlawful practice of excluding older workers from receiving job ads on Facebook for open positions at their companies, claim the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and three workers. Together with powerhouse law firm Outten & Golden,…

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I’ve got two FREE HR-compliance seminars next month to help you address an aging workforce

As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Age Discrimination Employment Act (ADEA), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is determined to make the ADEA “more relevant than ever.” Translation: If your workplace doesn’t get its act together soon, come 2018, you’re gonna be like this if the agency or a…

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While unfair stereotypes continue to fuel age bias in the U.S., here are ten ways to avoid them.

It was right at the moment that I thought that I’d recovered from Saturday night’s disco inferno and baseball extravaganza, when I realized, yesterday, that I’d paired DC Comics with Marvel by coming to work in Batman socks and Guardians of the Galaxy II boxer shorts. Hopefully, my reader won’t…

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There are betting things to say in a job applicant’s rejection email than “age will matter”.

Now, where did I put yesterday’s .gif? Oh, there it is. While courts (and bloggers) wrestle with Facebook-related lawsuits, email is a different story. There’s this lawyer joke that the “E” in E-mail stands for Exhibit A. Or, what’s the other joke? Oh yeah, bad e-mails are like dirty diapers: they stink…

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