Age Discrimination at Walgreens towards older employees?
I have been working with Walgreens for 6 months. I am 50 years old and have been begging them to give me more hours per week , then just 13 hours. I notice on the schedule sheet that most of the younger workers get full time even though they started work there after I was hired. Do you think age discrimination is happening here?
A: What’s your availability like? What do they tell you when you ask for more hours? I would document it. Click here to learn how to document problems at work. I would state that you’ve been asking for more hours, but the younger people getting hired after you are getting them and you’re not. Are you a minority, disabled or anything else besides over 40 years old?
Walgreen’s has been sued BIG TIME by the EEOC for race discrimination. They seem to have a history of race discrimination. Search this page for “Walgreens” http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/archive/index.html
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3 Responses to Age Discrimination at Walgreens towards older employees?
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Thanks for linking to the EEOC, there definitely does appear to be a history of abuses occurring at Walgreens.
Not necessarily. I would just ask your supervisor why you are not getting any more hours.
At my store it’s a physical condition thing, not an age thing. If I have 20 pallets of 50-pound boxes to be lifted and put away, then I’m only going to schedule people who can lift those 50-pound boxes. If someone can’t lift that much, then they can be cashier that day, but I only need X number of cashiers and have a limited payroll budget.