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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Henrietta Hughes also applied for a job at a local hospital, but was rejected after they saw her age, she said.

“He said, ‘What’s your age? How old are you,’” is how she characterized the interview.

She can, and probably should, sue whichever company that conducted that interview. Those questions are a violation of the ADEA, the Age Discrimination Employment Act. They are not allowed to discriminate against anyone over the age of forty and they certainly can't ask questions like that.

161 posted on 02/13/2009 12:03:03 PM PST by Sister_T (The Obama Administration = Clinton's Third Term)
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To: Sister_T

If they said that.


163 posted on 02/13/2009 12:12:25 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights (Economic Stimulus: Creating jobs, one death at a time.)
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