If you are 40 or over, age discrimination against you would be illegal is you are targeted while under 40s are not (i.e. targeted for being an older employee). There is no protection for being targeted due to age if you are less than 40 (being under 40 is not a protected category), and there is also effectively no protection if you are over 40, but your colleagues (e.g. others in your department or in similar positions elsewhere in the company) are your age or older and were not "targeted," since if other over-40s were not targetted, that is strong evidence that age was not the factor in your treatment.If you are over 40 and believe you were targeted due to be *older* than coworkers, contact the federal EEOC about filing an aged discrimination complaint.