2021
DOI: 10.18278/jep.1.3.6
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Differential Treatment of Older Workers Due to COVID‐19 Accommodations: Potential Issues of Ageism and Age Discrimination

Lisa Hollis‐Sawyer

Abstract: This paper examines the implications of employers’ current COVID-19 protective workplace attendance policies toward older workers, potentially creating the outcomes of increased numbers of involuntary retirees and the discouraged older worker syndrome among otherwise qualified older workforce participants. How potential ageist assumptions and age discrimination under COVID-19 affect workplace decisions in reflection on the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (1967) guidelines is discussed. Older workers may r… Show more

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