World: Elder Rights: Global Action On Aging Find up to date information on the aging population around the world as well as While this situation may seem outlandish, age discrimination, in fact, http://www.globalaging.org/elderrights/world/
Extractions: In the chapter on Inequality and Human Development (see Chapter 2) the report takes a critical stance on the state of healthcare in the United States, exploring inequality and health in the nation. The references to the US highlight the links between healthcare and the inequalities caused by income, health insurance coverage, race, ethnicity, geography and most importantly access to care. The section of the report devoted to the US centers mainly on non-elderly Americans, as the focus is on the uninsured population. Importantly, the report notes the racial and ethnic health disparities existing in the US. Omitted from the report were the proposed cuts to Medicaid that will affect the welfare and health of the poor and elderly. The report refers to the differences in life expectancy between the poor and the wealthy in the US. Men in the top 5% of the income distribution enjoy a life span 25% longer than those in the bottom 5%.
TVU Careers And Employment Service Campaign against age discrimination in Employment www.caade.net/ Immigration and Nationality Directorate www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ http://www.tvu.ac.uk/careers/students/equal_opp.htm
Extractions: TVU is committed to supporting mass participation in higher education as part of its contribution to equality and social justice. The University provides quality higher education through a curriculum which embodies the central values of equality. TVU aims to increase learning opportunities for all students but particularly for those who have traditionally been denied access to higher education. We are committed to offering a high quality service to all of our clients and supporting their transition into the world of work. We aim to help all students and graduates compete on equal terms in the marketplace by doing all we can to: guide students and graduates through their career choices and the application process for jobs and further study offer guidance regarding strengthening and enhancing these applications give advice and support to counter any discrimination faced
Useful Links www.agepositive.gov.uk. Employers Forum on age Leading agency working to eliminate sex discrimination in Britain. www.eoc.org.uk http://www.kingston.gov.uk/community,_people_and_living/equalities/strategic_ser
High Tech Workers And Age Discrimination Selected Reports and Articles on HighTech age discrimination. Bob Evans, age discrimination Are Oldies Source http//www.eeoc.gov/facts/age.html http://www.ieeeusa.org/careers/employment/age.html
Extractions: AGE DISCRIMINATION "Companies may say they value older IT workers for their loyalty and knowledge, but there's definitely age discrimination, according to 41% of respondents to a Computerworld survey of 203 IT managers." The Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (42 U.S.C. Sections 6101-6107) prohibits age discrimination in programs receiving federal assistance. The Department of Labor has placed the language of the statute on-line at http://www.dol.gov/dol/oasam/public/regs/statutes/age_act.htm
GNN - Government News Network age discrimination TO BE OUTLAWED. Over 65s are to get the same rights to unfair dismissal and redundancy payments as younger workers under new measures to http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/dti/
Extractions: Possibly. The federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) provides that workers over the age of 40 cannot be arbitrarily discriminated against because of age in any employment decision. Perhaps the single most important rule under the ADEA is that no worker can be forced to retire. Under the ADEA, there has to be a valid reason not related to age for all employment decisions, especially lay-offs. Examples of valid reasons would be poor job performance by the employee or an employer's economic trouble. If lay-offs have been announced or are in the wind, talk with other affected workers. If most people who are laid off are 40 or older, and the majority of workers kept on are younger, you may have the basis for an ADEA complaint or lawsuit. This is especially likely if the employer has hired younger workers to take the places of workers over 40.
Alliance@IBM Articles And Flyers age discrimination LAWSUIT AGAINST IBM Informational Meetings. Selected for Layoff by age world Wide Semiconductor Manufacturing*. What you can do http://www.allianceibm.org/agediscrimination.htm
Extractions: Age Discrimination at IBM Age Discrimination in Layoff Lawsuit Flyer James Leas AGE DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT AGAINST IBM Informational Meetings. IBMers Accuse Big Blue of Targeting Older Workers in Layoffs EEOC Complaint Form for IBM employees laid off in Vermont What about the waiver not to sue that I must sign? World Wide Semiconductor Manufacturing:* What you can do: 1. File a complaint with your State Attorney General, Civil Rights Division 2. File a compliant with the federal agency EEOC ( http://www.eeoc.gov 3. Cost to you: Zero If successful, potentially: The Release/covenant not to sue permits filing age discrimination complaint and EEOC complaint There is a 180 to 300-day limit (depending on your state) for filing after you are laid off.
American Bar Association 3 to Florida gov. Jeb Bush, state Senate President Toni Jennings and House Speaker Calling the age discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) an http://www.abanet.org/poladv/letter/00feb.html
Extractions: Republican, Democratic agendas unveiled Republican and Democratic leaders last month unveiled their separate, and very different, agendas for the Second Session of the 106th Congress, each group hoping to produce results that will help them win on election day in November. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) said the Republicans will start with legislation focused on tax, trade and technology issues. Democratic leaders and White House officials led off their list with school construction, and stressed unfinished business that includes patients' rights and gun safety legislation. Republican Agenda Hastert announced that the first major House vote of the session, which began Jan. 24, will be on the first of three tax proposals: a bill to provide relief from the marriage tax penalty, under which some married couples pay more taxes than they would if they were single. That measure will be followed by a proposal to expand Individual Retirement Accounts to cover primary and secondary school expenses that may include tuition for private schools. The third bill would establish tax breaks and incentives for developing low-income communities. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said that Senate Republicans will focus on preserving Social Security, improving education, implementing tax cuts, rebuilding the military, and fighting the war on drugs. The first Senate vote is expected to be on bankruptcy reform legislation pending from last year.
Legal Links Best of the Internet Selected by Librarians; Calalog of US gov t Science and age discrimination · 5 Items. Civil Rights Center; Cornell Legal Info http://webpages.uah.edu/~woodwaw/ooch/zwebview.html
Extractions: Legal Links for College and University Attorneys Compiled and maintained by Bill Woodward Please send comments, corrections, additions, etc. to mailto:woodwaw@email.uah.edu This site is not connected with, authorized by, sponsored by, nor approved by the University of Alabama System or the University of Alabama in Huntsville in any way and makes no representations of any affiliation whatsoever with either. These links are arranged by categories. Any category with an entry reflecting the number of entries can be collapsed by left clicking on the category description and expanded by left clicking on that description again. Clicking on a link under a category will take you to a table entry which restates the entry's name under the heading "Subject" and has a corresponding entry entitled "Document" on the right. Under the Document heading will always be a link which you may left click on to go to the location. In many cases, under that link will be a short description of what is available at that link. Above the "Subject" entry will be an entry "Top" which returns you to the link from which you came. It may also contain entries for "Next" and "Previous" which allow you to navigate through the table entries without returning the category listing. All of the links and descriptions are on a single page. While this makes the initial download take longer, it allows you to
Links From The The Mental Health In Later Life Website age Positive at www.agepositive.gov.uk The UK government s campaign to tackle age discrimination and promote age diversity in the workplace. http://www.mhilli.org/links.htm
Extractions: Home Links Tell-A-Friend Additions Feedback Site Map ... Search Links This page provides a list of links to other useful websites on older people and mental health issues. - choose from below - Action on Elder Abuse Age Concern England Age Positive Agenet Alzheimer Scotland - Action on Dementia Alzheimer's Disease International Alzheimer's Society Alzheimer's Society (Northern Ireland) AlzheimerSupport.com American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) BASE: British Association for Service to the Elderly British Society of Gerontology CANDID - Counselling and Diagnosis in Dementia Care Direct Caring Decisions Centre for Policy on Ageing Clive Project [Support for younger people with dementia] Counsel and Care Dementia Research Group Dementia Services Development Centre Department of Health For Dementia Forget me not: mental health services for older people Help the Aged Institute for Ageing and Health Kingshill Research Centre Liaison Psychiatry for Older People National Service Framework for Older People Oxford Dementia Centre Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity - PRIAE Research into Ageing Sage (social policy in an ageing society) Signpost to Older People and Mental Health Matters journal Action on Elder Abuse at www.elderabuse.org.uk
Workplace RERC http//www.dol.gov/odep/registration/combined_form.htm. Return to Contents. Supreme Court Hears Case of Reverse age discrimination http://www.workplacererc.org/News/Highlights1203.php
Extractions: November/December 2003 The seventh edition of the Workplace Accommodations Policy Highlights describes recent efforts by U.S. regulatory agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Labor (DOL) to assist employers in making accommodations for people with disabilities. The EEOC has created a fact sheet for employers, along with applicants and employees, on how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to employment situations involving diabetes. The EEOC also held a Public Commission Meeting on the benefits of workplace mediation, which could help settle disputes between employers and employees with disabilities. The DOL designed a seminar for employers on the development, implementation, and maintenance of emergency preparedness plans that are disability-friendly. Several judicial cases are also examined this month, including Gallegos v. Elite Model Management Corp. In this case, a state court jury in Manhattan awarded $5.2 million to a former employee, Victoria Gallegos, of Elite Model Management who sued because the company denied her the job accommodation of a smoke-free workplace. It is interesting to note that Gallegos and her attorney opted to bring charges under the New York City Human Rights Law and Smoke-Free Air Act instead of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The reason why Gallegos declined to sue under Title I of the ADA is in part due to the difficulties that plaintiffs have encountered in proving their conditions to be "disabilities" under the statute.
Pensions World age discrimination outlawed. The government is consulting on draft regulations to outlaw age discrimination in employment and vocational training. http://www.pensionsworld.co.uk/news/news2005/august/age.htm
Extractions: Age discrimination outlawed The government is consulting on draft regulations to outlaw age discrimination in employment and vocational training. In this third consultation paper on the EU Employment Directive's implementation, companies and trustees will be allowed to maintain certain age-based rules and practices for pension schemes. Age regulations will make it unlawful for trustees or pension managers to harass or discriminate against a member or prospective member of the scheme on grounds of age. Members' rights accrued before 1 October 2006 will not be affected. The regulations will exempt certain age related practices, eg: closing pension schemes or parts of them to new members use of minimum and maximum ages for scheme admission, or different admission ages for different groups of employees providing different schemes to employees of different ages or with different lengths of service having a normal pension age (ie the age at which a person normally becomes entitled to receive retirement benefits) both age related and flat rate contributions into pension schemes (though the consultation document refers to employer contributions in this context, the draft regulations refer simply to contributions the latter would be more helpful to DB structures that involve age related or even flat rate member contributions)
COTA Press Articles 2000 The government needs to start with good age discrimination legislation and The new world of work requires us to stop thinking in terms of earning http://www.cota.org.au/press/press2000.htm
Extractions: COTA Media Releases and Press Articles WORLD SEARCH FOR AGEING WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS Australian Senior, November 2000 p9 Council on the Ageing Deputy Director, Veronica Sheen, has just returned from the Committee for Economic Development (CED) Ageing of the Global Workforce conference in the United States at which she was the Australian delegate. The conference was developed from the concerns about the position of older Americans in the workforce, the ageing population, and the fact that too many Americans retire before they need to or should. She looks at how Australia could learn from the American experience. Although the near full-employment situation in the United States is expanding job prospects for older Americans, they still suffer from age discrimination and other poor poor practices as do older Australians. However, it was evident that older workers in Australia are in a worse situation than older Americans. We have weaker age discrimination legislation and fewer avenues for the workforce placement, training and career counselling of mature age people.
Useful Links EFA is a network of employers confronting age discrimination in the workplace. The BBC launched its world War 2 website in June 2003, http://www.niace.org.uk/research/older_bolder/othersites.htm
Extractions: Path: Home Projects Background Aims ... E-mail Groups [ Useful Links ] ...and finally... The links listed on this page are ones which NIACE thinks may be useful to older learners and practitioners. We are not endorsing the organisations who run these sites or any advertisers who might appear on them. We reserve to right to remove a link at any time. "Adult Learning in the Fourth Age" A synopsis of the NIACE Research Project 60-plus.
Learners Needs - Reviews - SENET age discrimination legislation is due to be implemented in October 2006. Group and the Department for Work and Pensions, 2005, at agepositive.gov.uk http://senet.lsc.gov.uk/reviews/learnersneeds/latest.cfm
Extractions: Listening to the work-based learner: unlocking the potential of learner feedback This report explains why and how to develop an effective system of collecting feedback from learners on work-based learning programmes. It argues that having an effective system of learner feedback and acting on the results, is the best proof of a learner-centred approach. Learner feedback is more than just another element in the quality assurance toolkit; it is a powerful channel for two-way communication. It can also be a medium for learning, helping to raise awareness of the contribution the learner can make to improvements in the workplace. Read this review in full... StaRS glimmer with promise (September 12) Looking back and looking forward: Strategic Area Reviews Strategic Area Reviews (StARs) have provided the opportunity for Learning and Skills Council (LSC) partners to agree priorities for their local areas. This document looks back at examples from outcomes which have been instigated through local reviews, and looks forward to further proposals to improve provision. It contains thirteen case studies which are based on different review outcomes across the country. They cover areas such as new sixth form provision, curriculum rationalisation, provision to address skills gaps, agreement of 14-19 learning entitlements, and capital investment.
EDU | University Of Salford - A Greater Manchester University age discrimination in employment and vocational training See Still a white man s world article in the Times Higher Education Supplement if you are a http://www.edu.salford.ac.uk/scd/equality/05.php
Extractions: Professor Peter Beresford won 1st prize in the National Conference of University Professors Prize Essay for his piece on the implications and relevance of inclusiveness and anti-discrimination for university professors. He writes as a user of mental health services and is also Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University.
Government Of Saskatchewan - Human Rights discrimination, I ask myself will human rights still be protected as we our the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code only prohibits age discrimination . http://www.gov.sk.ca/topics/keyword/keyword?topic=law-justice&keyword=1399
LawMoose Wisconsin - Age Discrimination age discrimination Easyto-use, well-organized information. Home of the Wisconsin Legal Web, LawMoose world Legal Resource Center, LawMoose Generator!, http://www.lawmoose.com/index.cfm?Action=Library.&Topic=WI179240
LawMoose Minnesota - Government Benefits Law govBenefits.gov will help you answer that question. protection of legal rights, legal assistance, age discrimination, elder abuse, and a consumer guide. http://www.lawmoose.com/index.cfm?Action=Library.&Topic=MN101061
