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Labor/Employment

Nov. 4, 2006

Courts Give Employers Little Wiggle Room With Age Discrimination Laws

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN - By Leonid Zilberman - Exactly when a person becomes old is a matter of individual preference.


Employment Column

By Leonid Zilberman

     
      Exactly when a person becomes old is a matter of individual preference. However, all of us know somebody who has lived long enough - 40 years to be exact - to qualify as an older person under the 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act. In 1990, presumably to provide even stronger protections against the exploitation of workers over 40, Congr...

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