首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Recent headlines haven’t made it look easy to be over the hill at work. Washington D. C. , power players are turning to plastic
Recent headlines haven’t made it look easy to be over the hill at work. Washington D. C. , power players are turning to plastic
admin
2016-07-09
75
问题
Recent headlines haven’t made it look easy to be over the hill at work. Washington D. C. , power players are turning to plastic surgery to avoid a "use by" date for their careers. Silicon Valley firms are hiring high school students as interns. Twitter got hit with a lawsuit alleging age discrimination last week by a former manager. All of these made us wonder: In today’s economy, is age discrimination getting better or worse?
The answer, as you might expect, is that it’s complicated. While numbers point to a downward trend, and there is some evidence of a warming toward older workers, ageism remains a real issue that’s among the hardest complaints by workers to prove. Charges of age discrimination to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission(EEOC)have actually declined slightly in recent years. The number of age-related filings went from 22,857 in 2012(23 percent of all claims)to 21,396 in 2013(22.8 percent of the total). Both numbers are down from a high of 24,582 in 2008(or nearly 26 percent of all filings). But those numbers only offer part of the picture. While charges are down, total monetary awards are up, reaching $97. 9 million for 2013, the highest level since 1997. Some workers may file charges at a state Fair Employment Practice Agency(FEPA), says Ray Peeler, a senior attorney adviser for the EEOC. And of course, many employees don’t actually take action after facing age discrimination at work. ’
There are at least two possible explanations for why the number of charges has started to fall. For one, the economy has been on an upswing. "It’s a well-established phenomenon that if the economy is going down, the number of job discrimination claims in various categories goes way up," says Garry Mathiason, a senior partner with Littler Mendelson, a global employment law firm. Another potential rationale is that years after the worst of the recession’s cutbacks, more older workers are experiencing age discrimination as they try to get hired—rather than on their way out the door. Older employees, says Laurie McCann, senior attorney with the AARP Foundation, are overrepresented among the ranks of the long-term unemployed. While they may suspect age is limiting them from getting interviews or callbacks, it’s typically not enough for them to file an actual claim. A 2012 AARP survey found that 77 percent of unemployed respondents aged 45 to 54 said workers face age discrimination in the workplace, based on their experience. Just 58 percent of those employed full-time said the same.
Increases in online job applications, McCann says, also create more stumbling blocks for older workers. Candidates who might have left the year they graduated from college off of a paper or e-mailed resume can’t do that if a web-based application requires them to complete every field before it can be submitted. As a result of such practices, says Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at University of California, Davis who has studied age discrimination in the tech industry, many older workers "can’t even get to first base. They can’t get past H. R. " The tech industry has been under particular scrutiny recently for its youth-oriented culture. Big Silicon Valley firms have been called out for explicitly requesting "new grads" in job,descriptions—a no-no in the eyes of the EEOC. Bay Area venture capitalists have a reputation for bias against older founders. And plastic surgeons in San Francisco say they’re getting queries from the under-40 crowd about Botox and baldness. In the tech industry, says Matloff, "it’s a funny definition of old. We’re not talking about 55. We’re talking about 35."
But despite tech’s reputation for valuing youth, some see a thawing in the attention given to older workers. Kris Stadelman, the director of NOVA, a work force development and training agency in the Bay Area, says she’s watched an interesting shift happen over the past year or so. Top-tier tech companies still have a reputation among job seekers and recruiters as wanting younger workers, she says. " We still hear things like ’ stale degree’used as a euphemism for age," she says. That said,Stadelman has seen a "warming trend" toward older workers among more mid-tier firms. There’s more hiring going on, for one. But she also believes the "feeding frenzy" for young tech whizzes and the high salaries they’ve commanded have produced some anecdotal evidence of a trend in reverse. At the more mid-tier companies, she says, "their impression is that they’ve created this false marketplace. Now, they’re looking at the relatively less expensive older employees. "
Whether age discrimination is actually rising or falling, one thing is clear: Proving these claims is particularly hard. With other types of discrimination, such as race, employees have to show that race was just one of the factors in, say, losing their job. But if the complaint is about age, the standard of proof is higher. Employees, says the EEOC’s Peeler, have to show "it was the reason that tipped the scales. "
Mid-tier firms show more favor toward older employees as they have______.
选项
A、rich experience
B、less family burden
C、lower request of salary
D、greater enthusiasm
答案
C
解析
细节题。由题干中的mid-tier firms定位至第五段。该段第五句提到,中等层次的公司开始将视线投向年龄偏大一些的雇员,该段最后一句给出了原因,即“年龄偏大的员工相对也较便宜”,故[C]正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/GH7O777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
In______,linguistsprobeintothepossibilityofcombininglinguistictheoriesandlanguageteaching.
Thefactthatdifferentlanguageshavedifferentwordsforthesameobjectisagoodillustrationofthe______featureoflanguag
Somedeviantusesoftechnologyarecriminal,thoughnotallparticipantsseeitthatway.Downloadingofmusic,typicallyprot
Howmenfirstlearnedtoinventwordsisunknown;inotherword,theoriginoflanguageisamystery.Allwereallyknowis【M1】
Currently,eachcitizencanconfirmothers’personalinformationbypayingfiveyuanandsendingashortmessagetoNationalCit
Hawthornegenerallyconcernedhimselfwithsuchissuesas______inhisfictions.
就在此时此刻,我感到一种神秘的变动在我身上发生,一种无法言说的谜在我胸中跃动:一种曾经背叛过我自己、但是非常美好的东西复归了,而另一种我曾想摆脱而无法摆脱的东西消失了。我感到身上好象减少了什么,又增加了什么,感到我自己的世界在扩大,胸脯在奇异地伸延,一直伸
在得病以前,我受父母宠爱,在家中横行霸道,一旦隔离,拘禁在花园山坡上一幢小房子里,顿感被打人冷宫,十分郁郁不得志起来。一个春天的傍晚,园中百花怒放,父母在园中设宴,霎时宾客云集,笑语四溢。我在山坡的小屋里,悄悄掀起窗帘,窥见园中大干世界,一片喧闹。自己的哥
PASSAGEFOURWhatistheaimofpreparingpersonalizedgene-basedmedicine?
A、Itisundertheriskofbankruptcy.B、Itisgainingmoreprofits.C、Itisboominginstockmarket.D、Itisinneedofanewvi
随机试题
上病例诊断为:内治法则为:
感染HIV后的临床分期下列哪项正确
患者女,60岁。近2日出现尿频、尿急、尿痛、耻骨弓不适,且有肉眼血尿,初诊为急性膀胱炎。最适宜的口服药物是()
下列属于消防安全管理人职责的是()。
某建筑高度为25m,建筑面积共3600m2面粉加工厂的面粉碾磨车间为3层钢筋混凝土结构建筑,面粉碾磨车间正常生产时,空气中的可燃性面粉粉尘云很可能偶尔出现在爆炸性环境中。根据《爆炸危险环境电力装置设计规范》,该面粉碾磨车间应划分为()区。
党内监督必须把()挺在前面,运用监督执纪“四种形态”。
在AD—AS模型中,下列哪一项因素会导致经济中的“滞胀”()?
It’ssevenweeksintothenewyear.Doyouknowwhereyourresolutionis?Ifyou’relikemillionsofAmericans,youprobablyvow
Directions:Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteacompositiononthetopicTakingCareoftheOld.Youshouldwri
A、Earthquakesmayhappenanywhereatanytime.B、Thepreciseplaceandtimeofanearthquake.C、Whetherthemajorityofpeoplekn
最新回复
(
0
)