Fight Age Discriminatory Practices

Age Discrimination in General

Age discrimination is defined as a prejudice against a certain individual or group because of their age. This includes any assumption of familiarity or sameness due to one's age. It is said that age discrimination can refer to prejudice against any age group solely on the grounds of age.

Age discrimination can take a multitude of forms. Among which are the following:

  • Adultism (discrimination against young people; viewing them as insubordinate, irresponsible, and immature; the extreme form of this is termed as Ephebiphobia),

  • discrimination against middle-aged people, by viewing and calling them apathetic and “out-of-tune”,

  • and discrimination against the elderly, by seeing them as dependent, slow, senile and weak.

Age Discrimination at the Work Place

Age discrimination when applied in the context of employment usually takes the form of wage discrimination. More specifically, since older workers, on the average, are expected to be endowed with greater salaries than those given to younger workers, age-discriminating employers and or firms usually simply not promote or not hire older workers. Also, they usually encourage early retirement for older/more experienced workers.

In the U.S., each state may vary as to its law/s governing age discrimination. In California, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act governs age discrimination as to persons over the age of 40. The FEHA is the primary California statute proscribing employment discrimination covering apprenticeship programs, employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, and any person or entity that incites aids, coerces, or compels the practice or doing of a discriminatory act.

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