2/03/2012

If you are an older employee you may have been subjected to age prejudice at the workplace

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By Marinelle Davenport


If you live in the state of California it's great to grasp that it's actually illegal to be discriminated against or harassed, if you're above the age of 40. Like race and sex, age is also a protected class.

The Age Discrimination In Labor Act (ADEA) was instituted to guard people who are 40 years old or above from discrimination in the work place. Employers are not permitted to be biased against any person because of his/her age with respect to any entitlements of labor like hiring, firing, benefits, job assignments, promotion, apprenticeships, compensation, sackings and training. ADEA applies to firms that employ more than twenty folk.

If you should happen to feel that you were passed over for promotion due to your age, or were not given the level of coaching on a new PC, that your younger opposite numbers had, then you may well have a case for discrimination and you'd be advised to find the information of Los Angeles labor attorneys who focus on hanmdling discrimination at workplace court action.

Despite serious penalties that sometimes result from age discrimination cases, firms still don't appear to 'get it ' and age discrimination complaint files carry on rising.

Examples of illegal practices that could merit a successful discrimination law case include:

- getting a younger job applicant rather than giving the job to a rather more experienced older employee, just because the applicant was younger
- rejecting an older employee a promotion, and getting a younger worker instead
- refusing older employees coaching or tutorial classes which are offered to younger employees
- obviously advertising for college graduates for a job, or specifying qualified staff who fall into a certain age band
- dividing the older worker by debating work after hours at a meeting at a bar or club to that the older employee is not allowed to attend, making snide remarks or jokes about the older employee and ultimately, continually giving an older employee undesirable jobs that nobody wants to do
- putting in some place a system of sackings, which although it doesn't have a discriminatory intention, applies proportionately more to older employees
- taking part in certain acts which are intentionally built to force the older employee to quit

If any of these above actions have happened to you or a friend or family member, then a labor attorney, who's competent in this field, can step in and fight your corner, if indeed you have a case to say anything.




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