31.   -- Failing to offer flexible work options or benefits to older workers that are available to younger ones.

32.   -- Failing to offer equal job training and career development opportunities to older workers.

33.   -- Leaving older workers out of key corporate activities.

34.   A recent AARP survey found that more than half of companies do not have recruiting or retention programs aimed at older workers.

35.   A problem of older workers expecting too much pay?

36.   Actually, human resource professionals see older workers in a much rosier light, according to the AARP survey.

37.   After all, the government would still need to pay benefits already promised to older workers and retirees who would not benefit from privatization.

38.   Burnette, like many of the other older workers, has never smoked or drank.

39.   Businesses, meanwhile, are preparing for continued low earnings by laying off workers, offering early retirement to older workers and delaying start dates for new hires.

40.   Business groups are pressuring Wilson to veto the bill, which would prevent companies from firing older workers just to profit from hiring younger, lower-paid employees.