Legal Question in Employment Law in Texas

Workplace Hostility to Older Workers

I am an aircraft contract worker and at one of my assignments, I was constantly being harassed about my age. Several of the permanent employees (one of them a sometimes lead man) would continually call me ''old man''; like if they needed me for something, they would shout out across the shop ''Hey, Old Man come here''. Then if they needed workers to help unload a shipment, they would say ''We need some volunteers to unload, but not any of the old men.''

This particular aircraft company is Japanese owned and the offending parties were Vietnamese. This particular company apparently has not counseled their employees regarding age-related remarks and seems to tolerate such insults regarding age.

I was embarassed and humiliated in front of my co-workers by being singled out and insulted because of my age.

Do I have any recourse in this instance?


Asked on 8/17/08, 10:04 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Roger Evans Mathis & Donheiser

Re: Workplace Hostility to Older Workers

Explore this internally. As you have not yet suffered any detriment, legal recourse is not likely to gain you anything. Report your concerns to HR and act if anything negative happens to you.

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Answered on 8/18/08, 3:30 am


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