Advocacy group AARP recently declared in a headline in its AARP Bulletin, “It’s time to end the last acceptable bias,” referring to age discrimination in the workplace.
In June 2018, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) marked the 50th anniversary of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) with a report claiming that age discrimination “remains too common and too accepted.” The report backed up that assertion by saying its research found 6 out of 10 older workers had seen or experienced age discrimination in the workplace, and 90% of those said it was common.
