Is it against the law for an employer to discriminate against an employee because of turning age 65?

Unless you have expressed your desire to retire at the age of 65, it is considered discrimination to release and employee for their age. Due to your longevity in this position and unblemished performance, I can not understand why your employer would want to hire and train for your job. We are not required to retire at a specific age, however, there are rewards for working until you are 70. One may take "early retirement" (62) at a significantly lower benefit than one might get at 65 and the benefit of working until age 70 is quite a bit more than the benefit one would receive at 65. Based on your 91/2 year relationship with this employer, I would think that you could speak with them and express your concern about remaining employed after your 65th birthday. This may result in finding more information about the reasoning used to justify the new hire and ease your mind. I would not threaten your employer with filing a discrimination suit if you lose your job. I believe that they are aware of the age discrimination laws and know that the fines are costly. If the reason you are let go is your age, they may chose to cover their rear-ends by not naming that as the reason.

The reason the Dr. said she hired someone else is that she has to take care of her business. She admits I have been an excellent employee, but now is finding fault with everything I do. She is very angry at me most of the time. She is having emotional problems, making it difficult to work.

The only thing I have told my boss twice in the last 1 year, when she asked my intentions for the future, is that I wanted to work until I was at least 65 and 10 months to get my full social security benefits. And also that I wanted to work as long as I could handle my job, possibly at the end of 2008 and even in the future. I would consider having her hire someone to learn my job and just work part time. I at no time said I was ready to quit. She is trying to force me to retire and I told her I can't retire at this time.

Should I let her fire me? So that I could at least get umeployment benefits for a few weeks until I find a new position.

I at this time will only qualify for a little over $800.00 per month. That is before they take out my medicare @ $93.50 per month. Also my supplemental HAP insurance @ $130.10 per month. The total of $223.60 off the roughly $800.00 equals only $576.40 for a monthly amount. How can I possibly survive in this world at such a low amount. I will need to work as long as I can stay in good health.

She asked me to retire on Monday, December 31, 2007. I told her I will not retire. What does she want to do? She called me last night and said do not come into work on Wednesday, take the day off. Come in Thursday @ 7:15 a.m. and start training the new woman. Come in on Friday and after work she will tell me what her plans are for me.

Thank for you response,

Nancy