Employment lawyers and human resources professionals regularly preach that managers must document employee performance issues as a best practice so that if/when that manager wants to terminate the employee, the company has the “receipts” to justify the decision. Continue reading
Also, it is a bad idea to give that same employee a “retire-or-be-fired” ultimatum shortly after they return from bypass heart surgery. Continue reading
This sounds like something that might interest the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Continue reading
“When are you going to retire?” “Why don’t you retire at 65?” “What is the reason you are not retiring?” Continue reading
Last night, I read a NJ Appellate Division opinion about a plaintiff in his fifties who claimed his age motivated the defendant to end his employment.
Spoiler alert: it didn’t.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Continue reading
On Monday, three House Republicans and three House Democrats reintroduced the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA), billed as a bipartisan proposal to strengthen anti-discrimination protections for older workers.
Earlier this month, an employer learned the hard way that it could not rely on a contract provision to greenlight discrimination.
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