Word: ageing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other hand, the American Association of Retired Persons finds age discrimination still "pervasive." In a not-yet-published study, it dispatched pairs of "testers," one 57 and one 32, to apply for 102 entry-level sales or management positions. Result: though they presented equal credentials, says AARP, the older applicants received less favorable responses 41.2% of the time. Three-quarters of those responses occurred before the older applicants had even been granted an interview. Sally Dunaway, an AARP lawyer, says bias is hurting "people at younger and younger ages. It used...
...fact, the picture is mixed. Though often disguised, age bias obviously persists even in a supposedly desperately labor-short economy. There is too much anecdotal evidence to permit real doubt. But it is hard to determine its extent or whether it is increasing or decreasing, since anecdotal evidence is about all there...
Court records are no help. The number of age-bias suits filed with federal and state agencies has stayed roughly level for the past few years. One reason may be that more and more corporations are writing into employment contracts a clause under which the employee agrees never to file an age- (or race- or sex-) discrimination suit. Jeffrey Taren, a Chicago attorney who specializes in employment law, says the number of age-bias cases his firm has agreed to take is actually declining. Not, he hastens to add, because there is less bias to fight. Rather, word...
...addition, although age-discrimination suits rarely become known beyond the parties involved, some workers fear that word of one might get to a prospective employer and hurt their chances of being hired. Moreover, if an employee wins an out-of-court settlement, the employer almost invariably demands an ironclad pledge of nondisclosure. Unlike widely publicized jury awards in discrimination cases, such employee-settlement victories provide no information to outsiders of the extent of the discrimination a company has conceded...
What particularly gripes the old, and sometimes not-so-old, job seekers is the frequent necessity of begging for work from people about the age of their children. "Most of the human-resources people are in their late 20s," says Dan McMenamin, 44, a long-range planner ousted when Zion Nuclear Power Plant in Illinois closed...