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• WHO ERASED MILDRED BAILEY?

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 130
  I have been listening to Mildred Bailey’s singing since the early Seventies, when I found the three-record Columbia set devoted to her recordings from 1929-47.  And she never fails to move me — with her tenderness, her technique, her wit.  But Mildred has very few champions these days.  Even the late Whitney ...
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• Court Backs Distribution of 4.5 Million Settlement Against Allstate

  
  Workers Comp Kit Blog — Authority: 139
  The U.S. Equal  Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that Judge E. Richard Webber of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has granted final approval for distribution of a $4,500,000 monetary award to 90 claimants identified during the litigation as part of an EEOC litigation ...
  6 days ago

• Anglia TV caught up in age row

  
  PJH Law - Employment Law Blog — Authority: 131
  Anglia TV earlier this year underwent a major restructure merging its east and west programmes and reducing headcount by around 30. Dianne Stradling and Rebecca Atherstone, who were both TV reporters for Anglia TV, were made redundant. They have presented a claim to the Tribunal alleging that the reason for their ...
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• Calling Bullsh!t – Age Discrimination is Wrong, M’Kay?

  
  Psychotic Resumes — Authority: 111
  I’ve just read Maggie McGary’s post on age discrimination against older people going for social media jobs .  As a young person (24), I grit my teeth every time I see a job listing for “social media guru” or the like. I’m 100% behind Maggie’s frustration . It’s not entirely her fault; most old ...
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• Christmas 2009: Young and Old

  
  The Pluses of Being 50 Plus — Authority: 121
  A recent BMJ article quoted some research into how articles published between January 1997 and April 2008 the Economist dealt with ageing. Most featured pensions, demography, and politics. Of these 64% portrayed population ageing as a burden and 12% as a benefit; 24% had a balanced view. Most articles ...
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• Employee holiday party lesson

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 644
  Don’t phony up invoices in order to pay for an unauthorized off-site Christmas party for your staff. And if you do, and get fired, don’t file a lawsuit claiming it was all the fault of age discrimination. [ Gorman v. Missouri Gas Energy , W.D. Mo., via Siouxsie Law ] Tags: age discrimination , Christmas and ...
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• Young Peoples Constitutional Right to Drink and Vote

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 478
       In my day, college kids could drink but not vote.  Now they can vote  but not drink.  What gives?      There was once a time-honored American tradition of drinking and voting.  Candidates would "likker up" their supporters and festive mobs would parade to the polls on election day, taking over the ...
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• EEOC Getting $20+ Million Dollars to Reduce Case Backlog

  
  HR Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 106
  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is looking at getting an extra $23 million dollars to help tackle the growing backlog of cases at the at the agency. According to the National Law Journal, the 2010 omnibus appropriations bill, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 10 and by the Senate on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Watch: Older workers facing job-hunt challenges in recession

  
  RetirementRevised — Authority: 123
  PBS Newshour reports this week on the job-hunting challenges facing older workers. The article explores the job hunting skills gap older workers must confront, and age discrimination issues.Related posts:New: Assessing the job market for older workersSupreme Court rules in favor of older workersRecommended reading: ...
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• The Graying of America’s Prisons

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 470
  The following appears as Part One of a two-part Special Report on The Crime Report (TCR), which is “a collaborative effort by two national organizations that focus on encouraging quality criminal justice reporting:  The  Center on Media, Crime and Justice, the nation’s leading practice-oriented think ...
  3 weeks ago

• ACAS can help in disputes about ageing

  
  The Pluses of Being 50 Plus — Authority: 121
  I had a very interesting discussion with the regional director of ACAS in Yorkshire and Humberside recently and was amazed at the range of activities they get involved in - including helping individuals to examine whether or not they have a case against their employers. They handle around 1 million calls a year from ...
  3 weeks ago

• 12/06/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed:

  
  Greenwich Roundup: Those In The Know Are Not Fully Informed Until They Read Greenwich Roundup — Authority: 142
  Greenwich school district accused of age discrimination Greenwich Time A copy of the March 2009 report detailing the commissions reasonable cause finding was obtained by Greenwich Time . Bonita Jones, now 61, claims she was the ... Tommy Hilfiger Sells Greenwich home for $20 million ...
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• Is the CofE preparing to take a stand on the Equality Bill?

  
  An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy — Authority: 424
  A very interesting piece in this weekend’s Church of England Newspaper ( online at Anglican Mainstream ). By Adrian Hall, CEN THE GOVERNMENT’S Equality Bill fails to take sufficient account of religion and instead sees society as “a collection of individuals,” the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds has warned. ...
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• Hong Kong cabin crew alleges age discrimination by British Airways

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 530
  Fifteen female international cabin crew who are alleging age and race discrimination on the part of their former employer, British Airways, will have their case heard today (Thursday) before the Emplo read more
  4 weeks ago

• ITV: race and age discrimination claim

  
  PJH Law - Employment Law Blog — Authority: 131
  An ITV newsreader has been accused of imitating Sir Trevor McDonald by Lisa Aziz, the first Asian news presenter.  She claims that Steve Scott regularly imitated the Afro-Caribbean newsreader’s accent during rehearsals.  He is also alleged to have imitated Pakistani and Irish accents and the accent of Alex ...
  5 weeks ago

• An Open Letter to my Readers

  
  A View from England — Authority: 112
  Dear Readers, I am asking for your help in an important matter regarding British Citizenship which affects me (and many others in the same situation). This past summer (July) the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill, was passed through Parliament and approved for implementation in 2010. A small but vital part ...
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• How CEOs Rip Off Pensions

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 470
  What’s left of the American pension system is a  pit of unexplored corruption.  Corporate management has used the pension fund as a piggy bank to make speculative investments, and cover its ass in any number of ways. The pensions themselves are supposed to be guaranteed by a government insurance fund, but during ...
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• Lawyers team up to fight fake age discrimination claims

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Lawyers are joining forces to try and combat a spate of compensation claims from serial litigants said to be capable of earning up to £50000 a year from "fake" claims based on alleged breaches of age discrimination legislation.
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• 5 Job Search Strategies for Older Workers

  
  Susan Ireland's Job Lounge — Authority: 111
  Are you one of the millions of older workers trying to figure out how they fit into todays job market? Dont be discouraged. There are good job opportunities for workers who have lots of experience. Your biggest challenge may be figuring out a good job search strategy, especially if you havent looked for a job in ...
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• Economic Outrage du Jour

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 795
  Anne Tergesen at The Wall Street Journal reports : According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, age-discrimination allegations against current, former and prospective employers have hit a high -- up 29% to 24,582 in fiscal year 2008, from 19,103 in 2007. Behind the trend are the recession ...
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