Fortune 500 Nashville
Our workgroup had a meeting in which our managers manager stated she can replace us all with…?
…younger folk. Is this legal
She asked each of us our tenure and implied we can be replaced with younger people off the street just like I did in Nashville. I am in the electronics field and worked for this company (Fortune 500 company X who supposedly takes pride in their diversity) for 20 yrs and one guy is 63 yrs old and 35 yrs tenure. We are all highly trained and experienced with no performance issues. I think this was no different than saying what is ethnic background and we replaced people just like you in Nashville with latinos or who ever for much less money and they do a beter job than you. I am thinking of taking this to EEOC but am afraid of repercussions. There were 6 others in the room when she said it. Can I tell someone without risking my job because people have been fired or relocated before if they open mouth or report on managers. Or, should I just let this pass? Thanks
KENTUCKY is the State that appears in a famous song where a song with the words the words ‘with the flag in top’ appears. In any country belonging to the European Community such a behavior would be taken to a syndicate immediately by future victims who in fact are threatened because of inhuman discrimination.
The chance that this female topperry-manager would survive in her job in Europe after this moral crime
- threatening and discrimination purely on the basis of only age is probably really criminal – would be very low in the European Union where laws who protect workers are very strict and controlled. In Holland a lot of management imported from the U.S.A. have a difficult time in getting accustomed to what Jeremy Rifkin calls ‘a civil society’. That is contrary with this type of psychopathic cowboy-approach considered ‘normal’ in the U.S.A. as far as I have also experienced myself this theme and studied it in depth.
The right ‘to hire and to fire’ has a limit and that limit is the simple fact that the work you do is done by a human being, not by a male or female slave without proper civilized – and also legally protecting – rights.
An enormous European company like LIDL (compare it with Wall Mart) got last week an enormous monetary fine AND a warning from the European Union that a repetition of spying any of their thousands of workers could mean expropriation of the whole company that would be taken over by the European Community.
Don’t be afraid and look for legal advice.
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