It would seem to me that when the oldest and highest performing employees are selected from the pack for termination, someone has some explaining to do. I would also argue that discrimination laws in other countries are not as relaxed as those in the US. Age descrimination cases would tend to throw a monkey wrench into Employer Of The Year recognitions for sure. As more people step forward on social media, there does seem to be overwhelming evidence that age deseimination is a problem here. Descrimination is simply wrong in any form. If you see something, you should say something !!!
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good luck, IBM has been doing this for years and when they got sued the government sided with them.
true , Pepsico is age-discriminating , all over the world , however very sure too that scenario of a future claim is very well investigated and considered low risk
It's high time some laws were enacted to prevent (or make prohibitively costly) age discrimination.
The company I work for had a celebration recently for everyone who had worked more than 25 years for them in the US. This was a little over a year ago.
We are in the process of a few rounds of layoffs right now. I know for a fact a significant number of those in the 25 year (plus) range were terminated. If that same ratio was enacted across the company, we would have lost over 30% of employees (from a 90k company) recently.
If that's not evidence for age discrimination, I don't know what is.
No country for women in their late fifties or sixties. Or men.
Interesting predicament. Age discrimination should be relatively easy to prove. If a disproportionate number of well performing employees over 40 were terminated there should be a foundation for an argument. Cases where these oldest employees were selected from a common group or team would definitely spell trouble. General Mills is learning this lesson the hard way from ex-employees challenging 2016 mass terminations. These cases usually get resolved in a back room with strict waivers to prevent damaging a companies reputation or having court cases setting precident for others that are pending.