AGE DISCRIMINATION AND THE EMPLOYED STATUS OF WOMEN
AGE PROFILING AFFECTING THE UNEMPLOYED????
AGE PROFILING AFFECTING THE UNEMPLOYED????
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Thomas |
John G.
Roberts |
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Scalia |
Anthony
Kennedy |
Samuel A.
Alito |
These judges ruled to end age discrimination protection and equal pay for women!
Join us in support of: The 2011 FAIR PLAYING FIELD ACT TO PROTECT AMERICAN WORKERS AGAINST AGE DISCRIMINATION
Age profiling is when:
- Job board ads disqualify you because you are unemployed.
- You are told that: you have too much experience
- You are “over-qualified”
- Your energy level may be in question
- You are not a “team fit”
- You are not a suitable corporate image
- You are bullied out of the work force
- You are terminated without cause
- You are asked: When did you graduate? … And the discrimination goes on and on!
ONLY 4 YEARS AGO THIS COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. It was illegal to terminate or lay people off for no reason, ask your birth date before you were hired, ads discriminating against unemployed status and so were the 5 minute -degrading face-face interviews when the younger interviewers determines your age
WHAT WENT SO TERRIBLY WRONG??
The WAR ON WOMEN WAS PERPETUATED WHEN EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN WAS TARGETED with a Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and dealt a near-fatal blow to women’s ability to use and maintain their rights to equal pay for equal work ( Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 ).
The WAR ON WOMEN WAS PERPETUATED WHEN EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN WAS TARGETED with a Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and dealt a near-fatal blow to women’s ability to use and maintain their rights to equal pay for equal work ( Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 ).
This 2009 (Gross vs. FBL) Supreme Court ruling was the first step to nullify the Act of 1967 (ADEA) (EEOC) protecting older workers’ rights in civil rights law. Justice Clarence Thomas invented a new standard in rewriting laws that set forth a law radically undermining older workers. When Justices Thomas, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Samuel Alito dismantled this law, older workers were left unprotected and at the mercy of big business. This explains a lot about why job boards are free to post ads discriminating against the unemployed.
SPREAD THE WORD, OLDER WORKERS & WOMEN ARE NOT TAKING IT ANY MORE! TAKE ACTION NOW !
Sign a Petition to End the injustices: The 2011 fair playing field act to protect American workers against age discrimination
Join us here: The Gray Matters Coalition® — committed to winning the war against age discrimination in the work place and all ageism and discrimination injustices.
SARAH C GOTBAUM MSW., PhD. PRESIDENT
While this will help it won’t eliminate the issue. We need to reflect on societal attitudes and why a man with gray hair is distinguished and a women with gray hair is told she needs a new hairdresser.
The fact of the matter is that the age discrimination epidemic is this country has snow-balled out of control since the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008. Politicians know a problem exists and non-discrimination laws are in place but there is absolutely no enforcement or a champion who exists in a position high enough willing to devote the time and effort to take up our cause.
The brain drain to the economy and our country when hundreds of thousands of extremely experienced and talented workers over 50-55 are forced to the sidelines and/or into $10/hour jobs is incalculable.
The practice of age discrimination is now so embedded into the business culture of this country there is very little if any hope for the future.
Legal means are too costly and too lengthy.
Legislative remedies are either too weak or merely window dressing.
The only “solution” for us is to try to adapt and survive.
It is tragic and unconscionable.
There is no white knight.
God help us all.