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Career Tips: Job Seekers and the Age Issue – Discrimination Complaints Abound in a Tight Market

Jen Fad · Tuesday, September 21st 2010 at 2:38AM · 544 views
Joyce Townsend was going into her 16th year at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Fla., when in June 2007 she was terminated from her position as practice operations manager in the trauma unit. Along with another, younger worker, she was given severance and told she'd be eligible to come back to another position in six months.

Townsend, 66, subsequently applied for more than a dozen positions but three years later hasn't been rehired by the hospital. The co-worker has. "I was completely traumatized. Nothing in my record indicated I'd ever done anything wrong. I felt like I'd lost my life," she said.
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Career Tips: Job Seekers and the Age Issue – Discrimination Complaints Abound in a Tight Market

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