Subject: Re: Postdoc position in program development, analysis and transformation
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:52:37 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.prolog,comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <DHWdnZtxzYv45P3d3czS-g@speakeasy.net>
Thomas A. Russ <tar@sevak.isi.edu> wrote:
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| US courts have recently ruled that the US age discrimination laws only
| prohibit discrimination against older workers.  They do nothing to
| protect younger workers.
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And they do nothing to protect older workers if they coincidentally
happen to make more than younger workers. A recent (well, a year or
two ago) federal court decision ruled that a company *can* lay off
employees based on the salary they're making, as in, "O.k., people,
everybody in this division with a position lower than Director who
is making over $90K/year is outta here!" And if it just so happens
that the vast majority of the targeted group making over that trigger
amount are "older" workers? Well, tough. It's legal.


-Rob

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