Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boys, remanded to home detention by a judge, are free to return to school. Englewood residents are now claiming police coercion and racial bias in the case. The police deny any misconduct. "These babies just did not do this," says Shirley Blanton, a close friend of the families. Now, to celebrate, she says, "the whole neighborhood is going to have a barbecue"--except, perhaps, for the kin of Ryan Harris...
...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 to be 65. Now it is 55, 48 or even...
...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...
...Nelson, a New York attorney specializing in employment law. Chicago lawyer Taren adds that some courts have even interpreted employer comments such as, "This company is looking for young blood," or, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," to be innocent remarks rather than evidence of serious bias. The upshot is that if an age-discrimination case is to succeed, an employer virtually has to tell a worker in so many words, "We don't want you because...