SIGN A PETITION TO END AGE DISCRIMINATION- SAVE-CREATE JOBS & THE AMERICAN DREAM!
“The “2011 Fair Playing Field Act to protect American Workers Against Age discrimination” http://signon.org/sign/2011-fair-playing-field?
This petition is a crucial step in ending age discrimination in the work place and in America and convincing the United States Congress that such legislation is in the best interest of all of the American people and needed immediately !
This petition addresses the core issue, that of age discrimination which drives many serious cyclical age and unemployment bias and unjust hiring practices.
It is our purpose to end age discrimination in the work place, from companies, employment and, staffing agencies regarding practices such as unemployed bias in job ads, the interview process, unemployed status, bad credit bias and that toward extending unemployment benefits for those without work for more than six months.
Federal legislation is needed that would provide age discrimination protection to workers age forty and older like that provided for race, gender, national origin and religion in civil rights law.
It has come to a point where numerical standard mandated by Federal law is justified and legislation establishing such is put into law.
Such a law would mandate companies with 40 or more employees implement numerical, documented verification standards requiring that a set number (1 in 5) employees in their work force is comprised of individuals between the age of forty and sixty five years of age.
Special tax credits will be allowed to all companies who hire an individual who has been unemployed six months or more without prejudice to credit ratings or unemployment status.
The “2011 Fair Playing Field Act to protect All American Workers Against Age discrimination” Federal legislation establishing numerical standards mandated by Federal law is good for America , its workers, the economy, substantially decreases unemployment benefit costs and provides a fairer playing field for American workers throughout the duration of their work life-careers.
It restores jobs, dignity, human and civil equality and justice, liberty and affords Americans the right and opportunity to work, provide for their families and to pursue the American dream.
2,500 SIGNATUTES REQUIRED TO PRESENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE! UNIFY & TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR OWN DESTINY & BE A PART OF HISTORY !
Please show your support by signing and sharing it with anyone that would dare to age in the American work place! http://signon.org/s/HkT7QV
SUPPORT OLDER AND ALL WORKERS WITH FAIR WAGES & FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS NOW!!
Lane
Grand Rapids, M
I want to end discrimination in the work place in America.
Legislation is needed and a policy put in place.
Diane
Hence, I am more than ready to fight this last fight: AGEISM!
Moreover, my graduate work GERONTOLOGY!
I’m more than ready for this last round of discrimination!
Joy
I am now 65 and agree even more than ever that age discrimination is alive and well in the USA EXCEPT for politics & the politicians we support !
Politicians get long term very high salaries,employment,retirement
,free benefits for life! How good can it get!
Yet it is called entitlement if American people expect the same after a life time of work & service!
How do you say hypocrisy?
Frank
Poland, ME
There should not be discrimination of any kind!
Have a fair playing field and appreciate the qualities that people have.
Tracy
San Leandro, CA
And the Republicans want to raise the retirement age
(looks like there may be some complicity on the part of the Democrats too, and we need to stop them).
If people over 55 are least likely to find another job once laid off, then raising the retirement age is certainly a form of genocide.
There’s no nicer way to say it. Celeste
It’s ok to carry guns and hitler and monkey signs of the protest by Teabaggers and that’s called freedom of speech.
But when 99% of us want to exercise our free speech it’s a crime.WTF
Ben
Winston-Salem, NC
Stand with our President …..Sign Obama stand up for the people because we need to keep him in office eight years..give him time fix this country!
Pat
VA
And please help enforce this ! My experience has been that these agencies of enforcement end up siding with the money, ie companies, rather than those whom they are mandated to protect.
(EEOC, NLRB, OTHER ‘anti discrimination’ agencies. What happened to the NAACP! Have they forgotten the past-they have the power to help-we were there for them in affirmative action- education- where are they now?
Glenn
I am 48 years old, unemployed and continue to encountered age discrimination in my job search – enough is enough.
There is no way to prove it and now, it isn’t even illegal.
It’s not necessary to give my date of birth for company to know how old I am.
My job experience and so forth makes that pretty clear.
Stop age discrimination now – get people who are over 40 back to work where they want to be!!
Mary,
Gardena, CA
This is happening all over our country. People over 60 have a lot of experience to bring to a workplace.
Marsha
Fremont, OH
End age discrimination.
Eileen
Denver, CO
Everyone seeking a job should be able to get one regardless
of age or current work status! Age should never be a factor.
Jack
Everyone seeking a job should be able to get one regardless of age or current work status!
Eric
Jacksonville, NC
The discrimination against the over 40 people gets worse
and worse.
Legislation and a new law are badly needed .
Ray
Our older workers are more experienced , have proven maturity
AND they are more responsible!
Rick
Discrimination toward workers over 45 has been going on for as many years as I can remember & it continues to get worse each year.
Margaret
Houston, TX
In spite of laws against age discrimination, it continues.
Big business makes it’s own rules and does not follow the law.
John
Ponca City, OK
I am 48 years old, unemployed and have encountered much
age discrimination in my job search – enough is enough.
There is no way to prove it and it isn’t illegal.
I don’t have to give them my date of birth for them to know how old I am.
My job experience and so forth makes that pretty clear. Stop age discrimination now – get people who are over 40 back to work where they want to be!!
Mary
Warminster, PA
Worked in the corporate world for 30 years…9/11 ruined my company…changed careers at the age of 50…went back to
school to re-train and incurred over $48K in student loan debt.
Graduated and got a job making half the $$$ I earned before.
Now 53 , over my head in debt. I may never be able to retire…
Gary
Gardena, CA
As time progresses, either our older citizens will fill our
worker gaps or our children will have too.
Mike USAF Retired
Seattle, WA
THANK YOU!!!!
John
Our older workers have the most experience AND maturity and they are more responsible!
Rob
From the age of fifty on I experienced this…. this is unacceptable…. please fix it for all of us…..
Michael
Portland, IL
I’m 57 and I endorse this petition…
Ruben
Oglesby, IL
This is very important for a lots of people who are suffering from age discrimination or for been unemployed for to long to not fault of their own !
Alan
Blaine, WA
People with current skills, active minds, leading edge ideas and know-how/wisdom are being pushed out of their jobs because of age. This is wrong.
Eleanor
West Linn, OR
I can’t get a job and I have national awards! Stop the discrimination!
James
Medway, OH
I have had too many friends with skill for positions but are over 50 and never seem to get a call back, this is not chance.. happens too much.
Anthony
Colorado Springs, CO
Discrimination against the hard working people that has made this country successful is just wrong and horrible testimony to a true democracy and capitalist society.
Daniel Stow, OH
I’m a Vietnam Era Veteran, 63 years old. I lost my job in April 2010 and can’t find a job. We need legislation to protect older workers from age discrimination in the work place.
Joseph ,Wayne, NJ
Employers increasingly behave as though “experience” counts for nothing. It is also cheaper to hire temps or part-timers without benefits. This corporate behavior devalues actual skills accumulated by older workers via experience over the years and too often leads to a decline in health via increased stress and inability to pay for health care, perhaps most especially among older employees. Even though we would hope that recent college graduates and veterans returning from war (among others) can find a job, harming the older worker is NOT the way to do this.
Jean Hamilton MD
Canyon Lake, TX
Competing for a job in todays economy is hard enough.
Adding age discrimination is just piling on.
Michael
Belleville, NJ
Yes, this is needed and I’ve experienced discrimination based on my age.
Ramona
Everett, WA
I was “downsized” from Rockwell Automation after 30 years, many other “elders” were let go over the last 3 years.
My record and performance was always strong very productive.
Joseph Mentor, OH
Please stop age discrimination, how would you like it?
Valerie
New York, NY
Thank you for starting this petition.
This is vital to the livelyhood of baby boomers, like myself who are unable to even pass the interview test because of age discrimination.
How is it that 7 years ago my experience was valuable to my boss –
today they treat me as if I am worthless! What Happened?
We need to do even more & I’m certainly willing to help!
Good luck to all of.
Krystal
Tx
As a employed senior, It is imperative that we are afforded the same standards as given to our younger counterparts.
Lee
Edmond, OK
Discrimination against the hard working people that has made this country successful is just wrong and horrible testimony to a true democracy and capitalist society.
Daniel
OH
I’m a Vietnam Era Veteran, 63 years old.
I lost my job in April 2010 and can’t find a job.
We need legislation to protect older workers from age discrimination in the work place.
Joseph ,Wayne, NJ
Competing for a job in todays economy is hard enough. Adding age discrimination is just piling on.
Michael
THE OLDER WORKERS ALSO NEED TO HAVE THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS EXTENDED NOT VICIOUSLY CUT.
EVER SINCE AUGUST 2009 WHEN THOSE REPUBLICAN VERMIN VICIOUSLY SMASHED UP AND DESTROYED THE PRESIDENT’S TOWN HALL MEETINGS ON THE HEALTH CARE BILL AND THEY HAVE FULL BLOWN VICIOUSLY SMASHED UP AND DESTROYEB BETWEEN 2007 .
NOW MORE THAN FIFTY MILLION JOBS IN THIS NATION AND HAVE SEEN TO IT THAT THE OLDER PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FIRST OF ALL SLAMMED OUT OF THEIR JOBS, SLAMMED AWAY BY DISCRIMINATION WHEN THEY TRY TO APPLY FOR NEW JOBS AND NOW VICIOUSLY SLAMMED OUT OF GETTING THEIR MUCH NEEDED EXTENSION OF UNEMPLOYMENT–
WITH NO JOBS OR MONEY, SOON WE’LL BE LIVING IN THE STREETS. FORCED TO EAT FROM GARBAGE CANS ,THEN EAT EVEN RODENTS.
DIE BEFORE THEIR TIME BECAUSE OF LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE STREETS ,INABILITY TO AFFORD MEDICAL TREATMENT AND STARVATION .
THIS COUNTRY WILL SOON BE EXACTLY THE SAME THING
(GERMANY WAS IN 1938 BECAUSE OF THE COWARDLY WAY THE”DEMOCRATS” CAVE IN TO DEMANDS OF GREEDY PIGS LIKE
KARL ROVE AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIM INSTEAD OF HAVING THE DECENCY ,DIGNITY AND GUTS TO FIGHT BACK!
WE VOTED IN THE DEMOCRATS TO FIGHT FOR US–NOT TO TURN
INTO COWARDS AND BETRAY US .
SO WITH NO HELP OR DECENT FUTURE–WE WILL BECOME EXACTLY WHAT GERMANY WAS IN 1933-1945 . WILRYWARBEIN VERNAT A ORCEDTREE50ILL MILLION OLDER PEOPLE WHUJOB9ASEDED UA
Carolyn webb New York, NY
There are many corporations who practice age discrimination.
It may be the way your age betrays you in your appearance, or how they ask what year you graduated high school on their employment forms.
It is the loop holes they find that don’t outright ask for date of birth or age, but can find out in other ways.
Experience does not seem to mean anything to corporations.
They would rather invest in the young, inexperienced and spend millions of dollars in retraining them, than invest in experienced personnel whose work ethic is established and who know the work and culture that is already indoctrinated in their daily employ.
Stop age discrimination is the work place once and for all.
Marguerite
WA
As a employed senior, It is imperative that we are afforded the same standards as given to our younger counterparts.
Lee
Edmond, OK
It’s a pleasure to find such rationality and the answers we need to solve these age discrimination issues for all generations.
Tanner
VA
We must have age discrimination laws that really do protect us now that we are expected to work much longer.
They are taking away our social security benefits at 65 so how do they expect us to make a living ?With out jobs,social security or medicare ,guess it won’t matter. We won’t last long will we?
, Kay Anne
GA
This legislation is greatly needed and the American
people deserve it!
Julius
Kansas City, MO
This is the main reason I had to retire early.
No one would hire me because of my age.
Now I’m 61 in a terrible economy and have no hope of ever getting hired for a job again, ever.
Shelly
Pahoa US
Thank you for this petition.
Sheila
Oceanside, CA
The perception by far too many employers in today’s job market
is that if you have experience you will be more expensive to hire.
This is untrue.
In most cases, those with little or no experience will be less productive and cost the employer more in terms of training and management.
The older worker can ‘hit the ground running’ with knowledge and proven techniques from years of real world experience.
There are proven advantages to buying a well-researched book, from which others can learn, versus a ‘blank slate’.
Dan Lieberman
Wildomar, CA