Empowering professional women through reproductive stages. Addressing work-life challenges, protections, and guidance.
Are You a Victim of Age Discrimination?
If you feel you're being managed out, treated differently, victimized because of your age, you may be a victim of age discrimination and before you're fired, it's best to take action.
DON'T QUIT YOUR JOB. Call a lawyer first. Find out why.
Quitting your job is just giving up and doing your employer a favor, and most of the time when you quit you’ll also be ineligible to even collect unemployment benefits, never mind being able to take your employer to court, which is near impossible once you’ve voluntarily resigned.
Disability, Work and the Law
Whatever the challenge you're facing, whether it is something related to pregnancy, or you have influenza, or a more serious issue and you need your employer to work with you, be flexible, compassionate, reasonably accommodate you - make sure that you're documenting all of this, putting it in writing, so you'll have a paper trail, because your employer can’t just be dismissive and cavalier and say, “Sorry, it's too much of a pain in the butt for us, we're not dealing with you anymore.” That would be illegal disability discrimination.
Age Discrimination is a Real Thing
Too Old to Rock and Roll
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act [“ADEA”] is a federal law that prohibits discrimination in hiring, promotion, or firing based on age decision [factors] if the employee in question is 40 or over.
The needs of the many...reasonable accommodation
The needs of the individual - you - with your condition, your bona fide disability under federal law and what the employer (the many) needs to do to 'reasonably accommodate,' to be flexible to your needs--that to the employer (the many)--is basically a pain in their butt, because it’s higher maintenance, more cost, but they have to do it under the law and that's the balance, that's the test of reasonable accommodation.