Twenty something’s-last hired first fired?

 Chris Wodke

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Young employees are being hit hard by layoffs in many organizations. Employees over the age of 40 are in a protected class. Employers fearing age discrimination suits are choosing to layoff their youngest staff members first.  Employers have adopted a last hired, first fired approach to layoffs. The U. S. Department of Labor bears this out.  The unemployment rate for the 25 to 34 age group was 9.6% in April. The rate for workers older than 55 was 3.3%.  Companies are also reluctant to let workers with the largest amount of company knowledge leave their organizations and do not want to face age discrimination lawsuits. Younger workers are lower risk to layoff.   The managers involved in these decisions may also lean toward letting younger workers go.  Younger workers do not often have the family and financial responsibilities of older workers. This may play a factor in the decisions made regarding layoffs. Baby-boomer workers as a group have more loyalty to a company and have a strong work ethic.  Younger workers demand more flexibility, responsibility and high pay that their baby-boomer co-workers did not expect early in their careers.  Older workers tend to be easier to manage and are less high maintenance.  All these factors play in to lay off decision.

This trend is also seen in the public sector.  Layoffs have come to many school districts. Layoffs are being done by seniority, meaning younger workers are the first to be let go.

Merit is not even considered.  To keep things fair all layoffs are done by seniority.

The layoff by seniority may change now with the reforms adopted by the Walker administration.  It will be up to individual districts to employ the tools given them by the state.  Many districts rushed through contracts before the new rules went into effect.

The districts that waited for the new rules are not even laying off employees. The layoffs have all come in districts where contracts were renewed before the changes.

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