Excerpt from the full story in The Los Angeles Times by Richard Verrier:
A decade-old legal battle comes to an end as 17 major networks and production studios, along with seven talent agencies, agree to pay $70 million to thousands of writers…
Under the settlement, 17 major networks and production studios, along with seven talent agencies, agreed [...]
Excerpt from the longer article in the Wall Street Journal by Anne Tergesen:
Age-discrimination claims against employers have skyrocketed in recent years. But a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June has made it harder for employees to win such cases.
Here’s what’s happening in Washington in the wake of that ruling — and what you need to [...]
An excerpt from a longer article in U.S. News & World Report:
While overall care of heart attack patients in the United States is good, gaps remain in the treatment of patients 80 and older, a new study suggests.
…analysis revealed that 86 percent of patients aged 80 and older received early beta blocker therapy, compared with [...]
From an excerpt of the full story at Law.com:
A federal jury on Tuesday awarded more than $6.2 million in an age discrimination suit brought by two scientists who said they were fired from their jobs at a Chester County, Pa., chemical manufacturing firm when the company targeted only older workers in layoffs in 2005.
Significantly, the [...]
Excerpt from an opinion article in Roll Call by Monsignor Charles Fahey and James Firman:
It is ageist to scare older Americans with talk of death panels, cuts that will destroy Medicare or drastically reduce benefits, or make it impossible to see their doctors. It is equally ageist to pat older people on the head, essentially [...]
Excerpt from full article in Newsweek by Ellis Cose:
This may be the worst time in the last 60 years to be old and looking for work. Some 6.8 percent of workers over 55 are unemployed (not as bad as for younger workers, but still a historic high). You have to go back to 1949 to [...]
Excerpt from the full story in the Daily Mail:
Ageism in the NHS, which turns elderly patients into second-class citizens, is to be outlawed.
Health Secretary Andy Burnham says all patients - whether 20 or beyond 80 - deserve the same care and attention.
Today’s announcement follows alarming new evidence that older people are far less likely [...]
Getting old isn’t nearly as bad as people think it will be. Nor is it quite as good.
On aspects of everyday life ranging from mental acuity to physical dexterity to sexual activity to financial security, a new Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends survey on aging among a nationally representative sample of 2,969 adults [...]
The death of the 60-year-old captain of a Continental Airlines jetliner as he flew 247 passengers across the Atlantic could spark a new debate over age limits in the cockpit.
Craig Lenell, the pilot who died Thursday, was believed to have suffered a heart attack. A cardiologist aboard the plane tried to revive him with a [...]
In a recent ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to make plaintiffs alleging age discrimination at their jobs to prove that bias was the crucial factor in a employer’s action, not one of many factors.
The decision came as the court decided to reject a $47,000 judgment to a 54-year-old Iowa man who was demoted.
The [...]
