Brazen Age Discrimination in Silicon Valley - Company Purges all Employees over 50
Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 14:19
Over on Open Left Political blog is one amazing story, When Does Obama Admin Start Enforcing Age Discrimination And Other Employment Laws? :
This weekend I was hearing about yet another Silicon Valley-based outfit that has purged everyone over 50 to cut insurance costs. To add insult to injury everyone had to sign an agreement not to file a complaint about age discrimination, or not receive any severance pay. When you are in shock from being laid off and losing your income you sign it.
Gotta love how companies threaten people with the ability to eat in order to circumvent basic discrimination law.
Age Discrimination
The "agreement" not to sue for age discrimination is bogus. Age discrimination is illegal and agreements like this are meant to intimidate. They have no legal force. If you are a victime, check with a law firm that does this type of work and make sure they know about the Shirley Williams case against Sprint.
on Williams vs. Sprint
Can you write some more details? I believe most age discrimination lawsuits have failed, even though anyone who works in Silicon valley knows the truth of what is going on, for some reason a lot of lawsuits have been thwarted, esp. in California.
Your are right, this is absolutely illegal and we need some major lawsuits and some wins.