61.   Conversions cannot cause a current or retired employee to lose retirement benefits, nor can they discriminate illegally against older workers.

62.   Collins was pressing the case of older workers at Florida and Alabama state universities who claim that because of their age they were paid less than their younger colleagues.

63.   Days Inn, for instance, has realized that older workers are valuable on the front line.

64.   Dennis and others are worried that employers may be emboldened in their attempts to cut older workers from their payrolls by a recent California Supreme Court decision.

65.   Employers are realizing that older workers offer a lot of valuable experience.

66.   Employment statistics show that teen-agers, less-educated older workers and minorities are the groups most likely to suffer, he said.

67.   During the shift from the old system to the new, who would protect current retirees and older workers?

68.   Employers are also adding to this picture by their growing willingness to hire older workers.

69.   Every excuse for rejecting the older worker is perception, not fact, he said.

70.   Few older workers would have any chance of transferring to Decatur because the Trico mill will use high-tech equipment to perform virtually every task.