Being Discriminated Against at Your Job Due to Your Age - Tips to Follow
Monday, February 5th, 2007•Keep your skills as up-to-date as possible. Investigate training opportunities, and make sure your supervisor knows you’re willing to upgrade your skills in order to keep your job. If your employer pays for training courses to upgrade your skills, take advantage of them.
•Network with friends and former colleagues. Seek out organizations that help you with your resume and finding employers who are hiring, such as Forty Plus and job-search networks such as Exec-U-Net. Contact friends and former colleagues; use volunteer activities, list-servs, Web sites, service organizations, and social events, such as holiday parties, to renew your work contacts.
•Speak up. If you sense layoffs are coming, talk to a supervisor and find out when they’ll occur and what criteria the company will use to make cuts, such as seniority or geographic location. Keep a record of your conversations. If necessary, contact a human resources director and explain your concern.
•Document discrimination. If you feel you’re facing age discrimination, make a record of events, conversations, and memos that could strengthen a legal case if you decide to bring one. Keep copies of your job evaluations, and document conversations you have with supervisors and managers. Include the date, what you talked about, and names of other people who were present. Also keep track of talks with other workers who believe they’ve been victims of age bias.
By following these tips, you will have amassed key items of evidence that will assist us in pursuing your claim for age discrimination.