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Age Discrimination in the Workplace

Age Discrimination in the Workplace


I. Introduction

Age discrimination continues to happen in the United States. Different perception happening during the change of working environment sometimes creates unfair competition and drive corporations to make policies for their companies.

This tendency becomes worse at this time. It is reported that between 1988 and 1995 many companies receives lawsuits against age discrimination, where the amounts are bigger than those of any other lawsuit cases. Steinhauser (2002) said, “About an average of $219,000 was awarded, compared to $147,799 for race discrimination, $106,728 for sex discrimination and $100,345 for disability cases.”

There are some reasons why such discrimination occurs. Experienced workers, some who already reach their golden age would cost more to the company, because of their high salary due to experience and exposure to the company where they know well about what is going on. When a company finds the...

Posted by: William Katz

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