Age Discrimination in the American Workplace : Old at a Young Age - Mario Cuomo: "A timely book, on a vital subject by a first-tier expert who writes well-and means it."
Theodore W. Kheel, of counsel, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker: "I can think of no one better qualified to write Age Discrimination in the American Workplace than Raymond F. Gregory."
A study of a variety of discriminatory practices confronting older workers in the current American workplaces, and the approaches these workers use to fight back.
Nearly every middle-aged and older worker, at some time during his or her career, will suffer age discrimination in the workplace. Employers too often use early-retirement plans, corporate reorganizations, restructurings, and downsizings to dismiss older workers. Many of these individuals are unwillingly ushered into earlier-than-planned retirements, are denied promotions, or are terminated. The baby-boomer generation accounts for just under 50 percent of the entire workforce. A vast army of workers now stands ready to contest employer acts of age discrimination.
In this informative study, attorney Raymond Gregory asserts that age discrimination must be fully confronted, not ignored. He addresses himself to the millions of workers who think they might be facing age discrimination and traces the history of the federal measures enacted to assist workers in contesting unlawful employer conduct. He explains how the law works and presents actual court cases to demonstrate the ways that workers have challenged their employers. The cases help to illustrate legal principles in real-life experiences and many of the cases relate compelling stories of workers caught up in a web of employer discriminatory conduct. Age Discrimination in the American Workplace is the first book on the topic that has been written primarily for general readers. Gregory has simplified all technical language and eliminated legal jargon, ensuring that all concepts are clear to his readers. Individuals will turn to this book again and again to obtain authoritative background on this important topic. Learn about Stereotypes and discrimination, reductions in the workforce, early- retirement plans, hiring older workers, promotions, demotions, and transfers, employer retaliation against discrimination claimants, women and age discrimination, proving age discrimination, monetary damages and other legal remedies, roles of the EEOC and the private attorney, arbitration of disputes, and hope for the older worker.