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I couldn't think of any situation where disseminating the ages of employees
could be a business need. Even if there were no privacy issues around this
distribution I think it would still be a poor exercise in business
etiquette.
Tyler Yates
Records Analyst
On Jan 17, 2008 12:19 PM, Allen, Doug <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Great question. Were I an attorney, I'd recommend against it, since it
> could be used as evidence that an organization had engaged in age-based
> discrimination in promotions, layoffs, etc. It would be quite difficult
> to explain what purpose such a list would serve, OTHER than to promote
> age discrimination.
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> Doug Allen, CRM, CDIA+
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> (not an attorney, but glad I married one!)
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> I have a question regarding the privacy rights of one's age. Is a
> company allowed to distribute a list of everyone of their employee's
> ages to everyone of their employees?
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