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Age Discrimination Act of 1967
This act was passed to prohibit employment discrimination of anyone over 40 years old. However, it was weakened in 2009 by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that stated that age discrimination had to be the reason for a contested employment desision and that a claim was not enough to condemn someone for ageism, but that the other person had to admit that that that was the reason they did not hire someone. -
Age Issues in Management program
Age Issues in Management program focused on preventing age discrimination in the workplace and encouraged employers to utilize older workers. The program, conducted by the University of Southern California's Andrus Gerontology Center and funded by the Administration on Aging and the Levi Strauss and ARCO Foundations, demonstrated that managers can modify their thinking, intentions, and actions on age issues as a result of training -
AARP Best Employers for Workers over 50 Competition
To battle ageism in the workplace AARP, or the American Association of Retrired Persons, stated a competition called the Best Employers for Workers over 50 Competition. It is a national competition that began in 2001 to recognize companies and organizations with the best practices and policies that address the issues of an aging workforce in order to encourage employers to hire older people. -
Only 1.2% of Ageism Complaints were acknowledged
In 2005, some 16,585 age-bias complaints were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal employment discrimination enforcement authority. Only 1.2 percent were resolved with successful conciliations. Judges dismiss about half of them, and the rest are settled by negotiation or mediation. -
Anti-Ageism Taskforce
This was founded to stop ageism in the U.S. -
A New Mature Workers Anitiative
Since 2008, The US Department of Labor and The Atlantic Philanthropies have collaborated on a new mature worker initiative, which has provided funding and assistance to 10 grantees across the country. -
43% of unemployed people over 50 say that the primary reason for their unemployment is their age.
Survey data found that 67% of older unemployed workers had been looking for work longer than a year, compared to 43% of workers under age 55. According to a 2009 MetLife survey of workers and jobseekers ages 55 to 70, 43% of those who are looking for work say that the primary reason they have not been able to find work was because they could not find an employer who would hire someone their age. -
Ageism is Increasing Not Decreasing
23,000 charges of age discrimination were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commiddion in fiscal 2010, up about 7,500 from 1997.
