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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.
An age limit may be legally specified in the circumstance, where age has been shown to be a "bona fide occupational qualification [BFOQ], reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business" (see 29 U.S.C. § 623(f)(1)). In practice, BFOQs for age are limited to the obvious (hiring a young actor to play a young character in ...
In 50 years’ time, there are likely to be an additional 8.6 million people aged 65 years and over – a workforce roughly the size of London.
Ageism in healthcare is often an overlooked form of discrimination, yet its effects can significantly impact the quality of care older adults receive. Ageism in health care is a $63 billion ...
Ageism Against Older Workers. Stereotypes and biases toward older workers don’t just impact the quality of that worker’s experience, it can also have a negative effect on overall health.
[48] [49] [43] Today, visual ageism in the media tends to come wrapped in the guise of the positive attributes of third-age representations of older people, while adults in their fourth-age continue to be underrepresented. One possible explanation for this is that healthy third-agers might prefer not to be associated with fourth-agers, as they ...
A new law came into force on the 9th of June 2007. [18] This law prohibits any use of direct or indirect discrimination on the basis of age, sexual preference, marital status, birth, wealth, religion or belief, political or syndical opinion, language, current or future state of health, disability, physical or genetical property or social origin ...
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.