He applied anyway and, after being passed over, filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging age discrimination. Formal age discrimination cases like Kleber’s spiked during the most recent recession and haven’t fully subsided. “I think the stereotypes [about older workers] are a little misleading, because the reverse might be true,” Kleber says. Older workers have the misfortune of wanting to work longer just as a new generation is trying to get an economic foothold. “Baby boomers are starting to realize that we are actually going to have to get old.

Source: Washington Post August 04, 2016 11:03 UTC