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The Employer Handbook BlogHere are 105,000 reasons not to force an older worker to retire
“When are you going to retire?” “Why don’t you retire at 65?” “What is the reason you are not retiring?” Continue reading
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A court correctly dismissed claims of age discrimination, IMO. But, this employment lawyer still has a bone to pick.
Last night, I read a NJ Appellate Division opinion about a plaintiff in his fifties who claimed his age motivated the defendant to end his employment.
Spoiler alert: it didn’t.
Did this guy’s performance really nose-dive? Or did his age motivate his abrupt termination?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Continue reading
A bipartisan group in Congress wants to make it easier for employees to prove age discrimination
On Monday, three House Republicans and three House Democrats reintroduced the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA), billed as a bipartisan proposal to strengthen anti-discrimination protections for older workers.
An employer cannot rely on a contract to discriminate
Earlier this month, an employer learned the hard way that it could not rely on a contract provision to greenlight discrimination.
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An employer got sued for age bias. It admitted wanting to advance younger employees. It prevailed. HOW?!?
The U.S. Army employed a “septuagenarian civilian doctor.”
Well, at least it used to. Continue reading
2.4 million reasons not to intentionally avoid hiring older workers
I was going to title this one: “Sorry, I’m pretty sure that’s not how diversity, equity, and inclusion works.”
It’ll make sense in a second.