Cenek Report

Hats off to Joanna Lahey, a research associate of the Center for Retirement Research and an assistant professor at Texas A&M.

Her research has established that while the Age Discrimination in Employment Act appears to have helped and protected older workers on the job, it has probably hurt the older job seeker. Presumably, the law has made some employers a little more "gun shy,"and fearful of unwittingly mishandling the older worker.

Employers will have no other alternative than to be less cautious in their dealings with older workers given the well-publicized aging of the workforce.