Originally published 9/02/2022
The issue is not the problem. Everyone knows about that. The issue is how very little anyone can do or will do about it.
Gross v. JBL financial services, a seminal Supreme Court case in 2009, effectively made it close to impossible to successfully argue age discrimination: “You’d have to argue a systematic replacement of people, so usually it would need a class-action suit” said Robert Ottinger of the Ottinger Law firm
A recent AARP survey found that 78% of older workers have seen or experienced ageism in the workplace, but failure to hire cases in the age discrimination sector are especially difficult to prove from a legal standpoint.