HR Management Current Events Report

They Hired Someone Younger

Source (publication name or URL):

http://www.aarp.org/money/work/articles/they_hired_someone_younger.html

Bob Skladany

Publication Date: July 10, 2009.

Subject / Main Ideas / Concepts of article: A question and answer format where a woman (a widow) is applying for a job, had an excellent interview, and two weeks later was told she did not get the job. She feels it is because of age discrimination, because the job went to an applicant half her age. She wants to know if she can sue, or at least pressure the employer to change their decision.

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There were several points that were new or insightful in the article. The author is a career counselor for retirement jobs, and an expert at finding work at retirement age, and he assesses that age discrimination is extremely difficult to prove. He writes, "Proving...
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