Law Practice,
Labor/Employment
May 5, 2017
Age discrimination persists as federal law turns 50
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act became law in 1967, but make no mistake: age discrimination is alive and well today.
David Yeremian
David Yeremian & Associates, Inc.David Yrepresents employees in all aspects of employment claims, including wage and hour class actions in state and federal courts and as class counsel in over 60 cases recovering unpaid wages, overtime pay, missed breaks and other penalties.
The idea sounded right: there needed to be a federal law that barred employers from discriminating against older employees. (California had passed the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) in 1959.) The language struck all the right chords: Employers could not "fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's age."
Yet a...
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