EEOC v. Morgan Stanley
RTX (formerly known as Raytheon) is one of the world’s largest aerospace and defense companies, with more than 185,000 employees worldwide.
According to the complaint, many RTX job titles and descriptions targeted younger workers with phrases such as new college graduate, recent graduate, and new graduate.
At the same time, other RTX positions stated a preference for recent graduates or applicants with just a couple of years of work experience, their complaint said. The applicants seek to represent a class and collective including anybody who, as a result of these age preferences, either was rejected after applying to RTX or who was deterred from applying at all.
The complaint covers job seekers going back to 2018. It was filed after a 2021 investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that RTX’s job postings violated the ADEA.
Framing the Issue
- As Americans live longer, they’re also working longer. AARP polling show nearly 38 million older adults are part of the labor force today.
- According to the Pew Research Center, there are nearly four times as many older workers as there were four decades ago .The share of older Americans who are working has been increasing since the 1990s.
- Nearly a quarter of adults aged 55 and older say they aren’t working, even though they want to, because they are hindered by difficulty finding a job and a shortage of attractive opportunities, according to McKinsey.
- AARP found nearly three-quarters of older Americans believe they could have difficulty getting hired because of their age. About two-thirds have witnessed or experienced age discrimination.
Attorneys on the Case
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