College-age employees took orders, addressed envelopes, wrapped the drugs in newspaper and stuffed them into greeting cards.
"I observed that Michael Bloomberg preferred younger, mostly college-age employees, and I felt increasingly isolated," he said in an affidavit.
The immigrants had reported the use of under-age employees and what they said were abusive work conditions to the authorities.
And study after study suggests that typical late-middle-age employees have accumulated more wealth than their counterparts did a quarter-century ago.
At the same time, companies that once would have found work for retirement-age employees at affiliates or within their own rank and file, are rushing to jettison these older, more expensive workers and reduce labor costs.
The two-page affidavit claims that Aaron and Sholom Rubashkin were "frequently present" in the slaughterhouse where under-age employees were working, and that they "possessed shared knowledge that Agriprocessors employed undocumented aliens" and that "many of those workers were minors".
Will employers keep their ageing employees?
As companies cut pensions and retiree medical coverage, many aging employees doubt they can afford to retire, several experts and workers say.
SEE YA Writing in HR, Susan Meisinger offers one statistic that brings to life all the talk about a pending knowledge worker shortage — caused by aging employees who are leaving the work force.
In one hourlong episode, she and a flamboyant choreographer, Marvin Thornton, travel to the Raleigh Hotel, one of the last remaining Catskills resorts, to see if they can persuade the aging employees and guests to stage a variety show à la "Dirty Dancing".
