"Target Guilty of
Age Discrimination"
This
isn't really 'new' news for those working for Target, it has been
around for several years and in the media now and then. It has been reported
several times on this blog and in fact I set up a seperate blog site with
information on Target's age discrimination in
Tucson.
If you are a long serving Target employee
and think that you will be able to 'retire' at Target, you probably won't and
you will be considered a 'blocker' and set up to be fired.
It is clearly Target Corporation policy to dump long
serving employees to save money on wages and benefits and instead hire new
employees at far less money. Unfortunately this sort of policy is not exclusive
to Target but is found with other retail firms, Target as the 2nd largest retail
chain just does a better job of it. You better take a look at what happens to
those Target employees who have put in years of work and how Target treats their
long serving employees.
The Tucson case is referenced in the very
first post on the www.Topix.com blog dealing with this sort of
discrimination. The topix message board site was set up 8/9/10 and has posts as
recent as 4/22/12 with 108 comments. Here is the direct link FYI:
http://www.topix.com/forum/com/tgt/T3R7ARR8L9DC81BEF
Also the direct link to my
blog reporting on the Tucson case, Lavonne C. Beckford v. Target Corporation
at
http://beckfordvtarget.blogspot.com/
The
Tucson blog summarizes a very interesting case in Arizona Federal Court where
Target Corporation was accused by Plaintiff Beckford of systematically firing
long service Target employees in order to save money by employing new
hires.
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If you have
additional time to do reading about Target you might take a look at these
sites:
http://targetapdirectives2006.blogspot.com/
http://targetpayandbenefits.blogspot.com/
http://targetguidelines.blogspot.com/
http://diaz-target.blogspot.com/
http://targetccguidelines.blogspot.com/
http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/target-corp-v-doe
Kim Johnson
11:44 am on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
I was termed on January 29th 2010. I was 54 at the time and would of been able to retire in June. For over a year and a half there was nothing I did right. Mostly lies and nit picking. I was always told on my reviews that I was one of the strongest teamleads. All of a sudden I couldn't do anything right. Was put on a final in 2009 and was able by proving they were lies they let it go. That year my Store Manager was let go. I talked to him and he was told to get rid of me. He had never worked for Target before and had no idea what they were up to. To make a long story short. The following year I moved to a new area with a new ETL (scape goat). She got me on a final, in December she was let go. They let me finish out Christmas and get Softlines back in order, termed me in January. After terminating two more Team Leads he was moved to another store. Was let go last year. See the pattern? I worked so hard for that store. To be treated this way is wrong. I pray Target gets theirs someday.