Alison Downie, a partner, and Emily Kearsey, a solicitor in the employment team at Goodman Derrick LLP, look at age discrimination in the technology space.
“They said I was too old to work at a startup.”
Is it an accepted part of tech business that young = good, old = not so good? Really? No, of course not, that is far too simplistic, but probably not that far from the truth in more tech businesses than it should be.
The point is – are older people being treated differently and worse than younger colleagues in tech businesses because of their age, when applying for jobs or internal promotion; in the way their colleagues and managers treat them at work and in their pay and benefits? If so, does this present risk for tech businesses?...