McKnight’s Senior Living June 17, 2024
Recent lawsuits serve as reminders of responsibilities in the area of human resources for senior living operators.
To be clear, none of the companies involved in these legal actions is a senior living employer, but senior living employers are subject to the same laws and regulations that these employers are accused of not following.
In one case, the AARP Foundation is suing RTX Corp., formerly known as Raytheon Technologies Corp., for allegedly refusing to hire workers for several positions unless the applicants were recent graduates.
The government contractor used phrases such as “new college graduate,” “recent graduate” or “new graduate” in position titles and/or job descriptions, the foundation said, and in doing so “prevented the vast majority of qualified...