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The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) is a United States law (codified at 15 U.S.C. § 1691 et seq.), enacted 28 October 1974, [9] that makes it unlawful for any creditor to discriminate against any applicant, with respect to any aspect of a credit transaction, on the basis of (among other things) age, provided the applicant has the capacity to contract.
Age segregation is the separation of people based on their age, and may be observed in many aspects of some societies. [1] Examples of institutionalized age segregation include age segregation in schools , and age-segregated housing .
Ageism or age discrimination is discrimination and stereotyping based on the grounds of someone's age. [14] It is a set of beliefs, norms, and values which used to justify discrimination or subordination based on a person's age. [15] Ageism is most often directed toward elderly people, or adolescents and children. [16] [17]
This was an email I got from a reader: Last year they hired a younger employee and I have been working at this job for over 30 years and have always been in charge of the bookkeeping department.
In my experience as an employment lawyer representing employees, I've found that the recession was particularly hard on older employees. They seem to have been disproportionately targeted in ...
Depictions of older people as hoarding wealth and working against the young are “ageist stereotypes” a cross-party group of MPs has said.. The cross-party Women and Equalities Committee writes ...
Ageism [1] [2] [3] is a type of discrimination based on one's age, generally used to refer to age-based discrimination against elderly people. The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to describe this discrimination, building on the terminology of sexism and racism. [4]
As part of our "Age in America" series, discrimination attorney Michael Lieder joins us this week to explain why it can be difficult to prove age discrimination in the workplace.