Rehovot woman sues food store for age discrimination

Excerpt: "A 50-year-old Rehovot woman filed suit yesterday in the city's Labor Court against a food store that allegedly refused to hire her as a cashier because of her age. Raisa Kogan, who has experience as a food store cashier, was sent by the Rehovot Employment Bureau for an interview at Delicious Center, a supermarket catering to customers from the former Soviet Union. However, she was told at the end of the interview, "the age is unsuitable. I asked for up to age 35." "The consideration of age is humiliating and damaging to human dignity," attorney Adir Leshem, representing Kogan for the Na'amat women's organization, wrote."

Source: Ruth Sinai. Haaretz News in Brief: Rehovot woman sues food store for age discrimination. Haaretz Online Edition (24 January 2005) [FullText].