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What is your approach to handling age discrimination cases?
What is your approach to handling age discrimination cases?
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so sometimes age discrimination cases
um can involve a level level of subtlety
that we don’t necessarily see in other
types of discrimination
cases for
example they will start laying off
including in layoffs large groups of
older workers but it’s in a layoff so
employees may look at that and say “Well
I got laid off with like 30 other
people.” And so it’s a lot like putting
together a puzzle and trying to fit find
all the right pieces i guess it’s like
uh if you had a box of lots of different
puzzle pieces first you have to find the
ones to the picture you want to put
together and then put it together and so
my approach is really methodical i want
to look at what happened in that
workplace leading up to the
discrimination but I don’t want to stop
there right i want to find out what
happened in that workplace also after
the discrimination or after my client
was fired because I want to understand
how has that workplace changed and how
is it continuing to change i want to
know who’s getting promoted who’s
getting hired who’s getting raises who’s
getting fired who’s being included in
layoffs like what are the ages of all of
these people including the decision
makers and what’s happening if there’s a
layoff what’s happening to those jobs
once those employees are laid off are
they eliminating the jobs or are they
waiting a few months and hiring people
who are much younger for those same jobs
and what we’ve seen employers do more
recently quite frequently honestly is
they will have a layoff they’ll wait
about 6 months they will post the exact
same job of the employees laid off with
a brand new title but it has all the
same job duties and so it requires some
patience because you have to be willing
to sit uh and wait to see how it plays
out and also some detective work
Morristown, NJ employment law attorney Claudia Reis talks about her approach to handling age discrimination cases.
