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...bias in employment every bit as illegal as race or sex discrimination? Officially, yes, and McElyea briefly considered his legal options. But he knew only too well what forbidding odds he would face in a lawsuit. He had defended the company against many age-discrimination suits and beaten every one. "There is real bias out there," says McElyea, but it is hard to prove...
...people in their 60s or 50s--and sometimes even in their 40s--still have inordinate trouble holding on to the well-paid and responsible positions they have spent long careers working up to or finding jobs commensurate with their abilities and experience. Moreover, recent court decisions have made age bias even harder to prove than at any other time during the 31 years the Age Discrimination in Employment Act has been on the books...
...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...
Pardon my bias, but isn't getting naked to make a little money just a bit degrading...