Age Discrimination Gets Younger
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Gather Evidence
Kohrman and other solicitors point out that employment law is tough on plaintiffs.
"Smoking guns needed to prove deliberate age discrimination are hard to find," says Michael Harper, a University Law School professor. You won't find corporate memos mandating that 40-somethings be eliminated, he adds, so cases will always involve statistics and anecdotal evidence.
That means a lot of research, according to Kohrman. But workers have one advantage today that didn't exist 20 years ago to help them prepare for an age discrimination battle: The Internet.
"Someone who feels they have been wronged can do a lot of preliminary research on their own," says solicitor Adam Levy. "It's incredible what you may learn about a company or a supervisor or a CEO just using Google or Yahoo."
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