Forcing early retirements
Forcing early retirement is a huge problem, there are rumours that there is a case of forcing early retirements at Loxley. Forcing early retirement is the involuntary ending of one's career because of a layoff, health problems or disability.
Age discrimination means employers fail to hire or promote a worker or avoid training a staff member based on his age. Forcing an employee into early retirement based exclusively on age is also discriminatory. Employer discrimination also involves firing an employee or forcing the staff member to quit before earning company retirement benefits.
One of the reasons why older workers would be forced into early retirements is due to the fact that younger workers earn less pay compared with senior workers and managers. Eliminating a division of senior staff saves money and also eliminates imminent company retirement benefits by letting the older workers go before the official retirement age.
Using the bottom 10 employees as a sample of the entire 144 employees, we find that the correlation between the number of years an employee is at the company is lowly correlated with their performance score. The correlation coefficient is 0.2071
The top 10 employees’ correlation coefficient is 0.2964
This tells us that the number of years that an employee has been with the company does not affect the employees’ score by much. This leads to reason that the rumors about the company forcing early retirements have no substance as they cannot be backed by these results.
The rumors are most likely to have been started by the employee with ID number 83. The employee received a score of 75. It is most likely that this employee is one of the older people based on the fact that she has been with the company for 10.9 years. Only a few other employees have been with the company for a longer period. Employee 83 has been in the same position for 6 and a half years, the lack of growth could be one of the reasons for the low score.