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The Texas Commission on Human Rights Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act both prohibit age discrimination in the workplace. These statutes prohibit discrimination against, and harassment of, workers who are forty years of age or older. Despite these statutory protections, age-related workplace discrimination is still quite common.

Scott Gilmore Thompson is committed to providing employee-focused legal assistance. The mission is to help individual employees without direct cost to them. Call a dedicated age discrimination trial attorney in Dallas at (214) 238-8444 today for a free case evaluation.

Forms of Age Discrimination

Below are 3 of the most common forms of age-related discrimination:

• Employers mistakenly assume that older employees are slower, less innovative, likely to make more mistakes, etc.
• Employers seek to remove older employees from their positions and replace them with younger, less experienced employees.
• Employers violate the technical rules, such as failure to provide employees with age data during a reduction in force.

How to Identify Workplace Age Discrimination

It is challenging to prove age-related discrimination in the workplace. One way is to identify patterns where younger workers are treated more favorably compared to older workers.

Other evidence of age discrimination can include:

• Training and apprenticeship, or any other program, that has age limitations
• A job advertisement or notice with an age limit
• A layoff that targets mostly older employees
• Being asked your age on a job application or in the hiring process
• A severance layoff that does not list the positions considered for the layoff, the ages of those retained, and the ages of those selected
• Age-related remarks, such as being nicknamed “old man,” comments about the workforce being “long in the tooth,” etc.
• Benefits packages that exclude older employees or offer greater benefits to younger employees