This decade has dawned with a collision of demographic and economic challenges destined to give rise to an increase in age discrimination claims. Retirement accounts of older workers plunged in value ...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Few job seekers who fail to get an interview know the reason, but Michelle Chesney-Offutt said a recruiter told her why she lost the chance to pitch for an information technology ...

In a packed room at library in a downtown Boston, Rep. Ayanna Pressley posed a blunt question: Why are Black women, who have some of the highest labor force participation rates in the country, now ...

The state labor department has backed away from its controversial proposal to change state unemployment insurance law that critics say would have perpetuated discrimination against people with ...

Jacqueline Berrien, chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, says that the calls and e-mails started trickling in last summer. Members of Congress passed along complaints they’d received ...

This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was established by the 1964 Civil Rights Act ...

The nation's stubbornly high 9.1 percent unemployment rate has President Obama searching for alternative solutions to getting America back to work. One of those is making it illegal for employers to ...

The New York City Council passed a law on Wednesday afternoon that prohibits employers from discriminating against unemployed job applicants. The bill passed by an overwhelming majority, 44 to 4.