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Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 Course Name:MGMT-6041 Principles in HR management- HRM Section Number: 1 Name of Professor: Bill Reid

By: Ayushi Trivedi, Mohlika Kohli, Nayanamol Chacko, and Greeshma Madhavan

Date: 11th December, 2019 1

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INTRODUCTION The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects certain applicants and employees 40 years of age and older from discrimination on the basis of age in hiring, promotion, discharge, compensation, or terms, conditions or privileges of employment. The ADEA covers employment work including, but not restricted to, hiring, terminating, layoffs, promotion, compensation, benefits, training and job assignments. Age-based harassment is unlawful in the event that it is so pervasive to such an extent that it makes hostile or offensive working environment for the person in question or results in an unfavorable business ruling against the person in question, for example, demotion or termination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces the ADEA. It has the authority to investigate claims of discrimination brought by employees. It will ask the employer for a response, and then it will undertake an investigation. Section 188 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) prohibits discrimination against applicants, employees and participants in WIA Title I-financially assisted programs and activities, and programs that are part of the One-Stop system, on the ground of age. In addition, WIA prohibits discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, political affiliation or belief, and for beneficiaries only, citizenship or participation in a WIA Title I-financially assisted program or activity. Section 188 of WIA is enforced by the Civil Rights Center. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 gives security to more established representatives that have the competency to do work yet are held in preference, since they are progressing in years. The amount of damages done to age discrimination victims is far lower than the amount of damages that are done to victims of other types of discrimination. Older workers can show with 2

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certainty that they were victims of egregious, devastating age discrimination and receive no damages whatsoever because they suffered no monetary loss. For example, a worker who was demoted because of his age but did not suffer a pay cut may not be able to show monetary loss. Few workers or attorneys would willingly endure years of difficult litigation to win a moral victory.

HISTORY Nearly a half-century has passed since Congress passed the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in 1967. The ADEA passed on the strength of congressional findings that the socalled older worker population had been denied equal employment opportunities owing to invalid stereotypes ascribed to workers of a certain age demographic. Gone in 1967, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act referred to the continuous act of utilizing "self-assertive age limits" to settle on staffing choices. It noticed that the activity misfortune because of long haul joblessness influences more established specialists lopsidedly. By passing the ADEA, Congress recognized that age separation was principally brought about by unwarranted suspicions that age affected ability. In request to anticipate and keep away from this out of line segregation, ADEA needs businesses to think about individual capacity, instead of age-related generalizations, to settle on a choice on occupations. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act became law in 1967 yet its establishments can be pursued back to 1964, when the U.S. government approved Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This exhibit significantly changed working life in the United States. The focal point of Title VII was to block partition in business subject to race, concealing, sex, national beginning stage, or religion. After three years, the United States. The 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was passed by the Senate and the House

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of Representatives. Secretary of Labour to make a "full and finish examination of the factors which may will when all is said in done result in isolation in business because of age. That report, "The Older American Worker, Age Discrimination in Employment,"[14] which got known as the "Wirtz Report" (after W. Willard Wirtz, by then Secretary of Labour) gave the foundation to the ADEA. At long last, the Wirtz Report considered the critical effect of age segregation on more seasoned labourers, which it depicted as hopelessness and disappointment and on the economy with billions of dollars in joblessness and early government disability payouts, in addition to lost creation and profit. President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed enactment dependent on the Wirtz Report. Amendments to the bill by the main advocates of the Federal Age Discrimination Bill, prominently Senator Jacob Javits and Senator Ralph Yarborough,[29 ] prompted the reception of the ADEA on 15 December 1967. The enactment came into power on 12 June 1968. Like every single common right law, one of the elements of the ADEA is prevention. The very presence of the law should dishearten businesses from participating in age separation. In any case, the absence of conceivably first-class harms related with compensatory and corrective harms brings down the prevention estimation of the ADEA.

APPLICABILITY OF ANY RELATED ARTICLES OR LEGISLATIVE JURISPRUDENCE Insurance cover secured for older volunteer Type of outcome- Conciliation Contravention- Discrimination Attribute- Age 4

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Area- Work Outcome- Policy change Volunteer- returned to work

When a volunteer turned 80 years of age at a hospital, he was told that he was no longer able to work at the company because his health insurance covered only staff and volunteers up to 80 years old. He appealed to the Commission in order to engage with the charity in the conciliation process of the Commission. During the conciliation process, the parties understood the need to align the non-profit organization's risks and financial resources with the benefits of highly valued volunteers carrying out valuable community work. The charity approached the insurer and was able to extend coverage at the workplace to cover all its volunteers until the age of 85. This policy change resolved the complaint and the man was able to return to the organization's voluntary work immediately.

Another interesting case was when the claimant was 67 years old with 35 years of jobs in MacKinnon v Celtech Plastics Ltd, 2012 HRTO 2372. He was recalled from lay-off and at unreasonably high expectations he was exposed to an unusually heavy workload. He further alleged that by replacing him with less experienced workers who would be paid a lower salary, the employer would save money and the employer would avoid the requirement to pay severance pay. The HRTO has awarded the applicant $27,000 for infringement of his inherent right to be free of discrimination and injury to his dignity.

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CHALLENGES It is not conclusive that age-discrimination legislation can help improve the results of the labor market for seniors; the ability to effectively protect age-discrimination is threatened by recessions where regulations can become less active, recent court decisions and legal anomalies leading ADEA to insufficient coverage for older women and older people of color. 1. Age Discrimination Laws and the Great Recession 

Recessions, age discrimination laws are still active when most needed relative to economic expansion. Older workers have consistently higher durations of unemployment, reflecting both discriminations in terms of age, but the older workers are more selective about jobs. After the Great Recession, the difference in average unemployment lengths by gender increased significantly.

2. Recent Court Cases Weakening the ADEA 

Legal developments have reduced ADEA's scope and power substantially. The ADEA was greatly weakened by the Supreme Court Case Gross vs. FBL Financial Services Inc. in 2009 (Lazarus, 2012).

3. Intersectional “Sex-Plus-Age” Discrimination 

Discrimination is tougher against women than men. When age discrimination against older women is specifically intersectional, that is, they are not discriminated against merely because they are female or aged, but because they are old and female, then the ADEA offers limited protection for this discrimination of "sex-plus-age".

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It is also possible that other forms of intersectional age discrimination are not adequately covered by existing discrimination laws. There is little knowledge of age discrimination that intersects with other factors, such as race and religion. (Button, 2019)

The claimant was a 60-year-old attorney who applied for a job as a commercial law writer in Reiss v CCH Canada Ltd, 2013 HRTO 764. In order to avoid highlighting his age, the applicant excluded details from his application. The manager confirmed that there was uncertainty about the missed dates and, as a result, delayed the request. The employer's agent told the candidate that his application was denied and that in their encounters they were searching for someone "more junior." The HRTO felt it fair to conclude that this agent had taken the view that the candidate wasn't an appropriate applicant on the basis of a negative stereotype of ages. The HRTO directed the employer to pay the claimant $5,000 for his integrity, emotions, and conscience-respect as payment for the injury. (Dinsdale, 2018)

RECENT AMENDMENTS 1.

Legislation signed on October 31, 1986, by President Reagan largely eliminates the age limit of 70 on the group of workers protected by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"). Between 40 and 70 employees were previously covered by the ADEA. With this new legislation, all employees over the age of 40 are covered by the ADEA, effective January 1, 1987.

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However, it will be illegal under the ADEA to discriminate against workers over the age of 70 in any area of jobs, effective January 1, 1987, and with some limited exceptions.

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The law also allows employers to offer group health benefits to workers or spouses of employees 70 years of age and above where this coverage is open for younger employees or younger spouses.

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However, the amendments continue to allow for compulsory retirement of employees over 65 years of age who have held executive or high policy positions for at least two years immediately before retirement, if such employees are entitled to at least $44,000 in not forfeited annual retirement benefits immediately.

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Three classes of workers were partially excluded from the provisions of the revised ADEA.

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Where a clause in a collective bargaining agreement clashes with the new amendments, the amendments will not apply until the deal is completed or until 1 January 1990, whichever comes first.

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Employees covered by collective bargaining agreements. The contract must have been in place on June 30, 1986, and must be terminated by January 1, 1987, in order to qualify. The contract must have been in place on June 30, 1986, and must be terminated by January 1, 1987, in order to qualify.

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Law enforcement officers and firefighters. Before 1 January 1994, the amendment allows for hiring and/or mandatory retirement ages for law enforcement officers and firefighters by states and their political subdivisions. Included in this exemption are law enforcement officers assigned to supervisory or administrative positions and security officers in criminal establishments

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Tenured faculty. Before 1 January 1994, higher education institutions may allow any employee working under an indefinite tenure contract to retire at the age of 70.

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10. Under the new law, when the usual retirement age is reached, a pension plan can no

longer limit payments based on age. (Amendment of the Age Discrimination In Employment Act of 1967, 1986)

Significant Age Discrimination Case 1) Megan Thomas Case (2005) (Doss, 2012) Megan Thomas, 20, said she was fired from her position as a member secretary at the Eight Member Club, Ohio because she was told by superiors that she wasn't capable of dealing with members in her nineteen. 2) Abbott Laboratories Case (2010) (Doss, 2012) The EEOC sued Abbott Laboratories, a major drug company, for dismissing an experienced employee due to his age. The case was filed in the federal court of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. John Ziegler, a sales representative with more than 30 years of work experience at Abbott, was dismissed due to his age, as per the court records. The government claims Abbott replaced Ziegler with a less skilled younger worker.

RECOMMENDATIONS Even though the legislation has been most effective in reducing age discrimination in the workplace, it would have had one huge, negative, unfortunate side effect: the Age Discrimination in Employment Act could be a catalyst in whether older people seem to be less qualified to find a different job after the layoff than their younger counterparts. 9

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Structured age discrimination complaints made to the U.S. During the downturn, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) stood at 24,502, but in 2016, it stayed at a high level to 20,857.

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AARP introduced legislation — The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act — to restore the legal burden to how it was before the Gross Settlement and also to assure those same requirements were extended to all victims of discrimination in jobs. This bill has not become a statute, but it is a very useful weapon for balancing and preventing age discrimination.

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Review the appropriate codes of conduct for the ADEA. If there were no policies or practices in the workplace, implement ADEA-compliant policies.

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Each worker must be trained to recognize their privileges which can provide them with internal structures for reporting offenses.

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To understand their responsibilities, every management should be educated.

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Regular interactions must be produced to provide all employees with equal treatment of the company.

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Record all employment actions carefully, including decisions on hiring and layoffs, promotional choices and reasoning for regular evaluations.

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It is important to restructure the entitlement and security process for older employees who are undeserved and not eligible.

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For other purposes, the practice of filing lawsuits as age discrimination must be banned outright. Nowadays people take advantage of this law and start filing cases against the employer instead of the main reason.

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Culture and rules should not be fused together. Every culture highly appreciates the uniqueness and significance of young people. We even encourage their perfect health. It is significant to realize that never fuse the culture and laws together.

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A much more rapid change can be the EEOC focusing more time on recruiting to address age discrimination.

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Avoidance of age specific jobs from the ADEA rules should be considered because some employers like H&M, Hollister, and Adidas would not recruit older people for certain jobs since they are appropriate for younger groups and they want younger people representing them.

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People above 55 tend to have better pension benefits. This age discrimination which benefits one group of individuals while leaving the other groups without any benefits should be reframed.

CONCLUSION The question that if ADEA was a resolution to age discrimination is far more likely to result from assumptions about older employees than from discomfort with old workers that influenced recruitment. ADEA law improves older covered workers ' jobs. While there is some evidence to the contrary in this respect, it is less compelling. There is no proof that ADEA improved job opportunities by recruiting more and is likely to have reduced the staffing of older people, maybe because of the highest expense of revoking such employees. Ultimately, the main effect of ADEA could have been to enhance the ties that lead to actual-term employment relationships by decreasing incentives for companies to fire older workers whose wages may be greater than profitability. 11

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Amendment of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. (1986, December). Retrieved from IPO :https://www.lib.niu.edu/1986/im861220.html Button, P. (2019, MARCH). Population Aging, Age Discrimination, Retrieved fromhttp://ftp.iza.org/dp12265.pdf

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