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How the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Protects Older Employees

HR Digest

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), established in 1967, serves as a crucial safeguard against workplace inequality, explicitly prohibiting age discrimination against individuals who are 40 years of age or older.

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The Importance of Data Retention as It Relates to Pay Data Reporting

Trusaic

As employee salaries become more visible, employees who feel they’re not being paid fairly are more likely to file pay discrimination lawsuits, which leads to increasing pay data reporting requirements for employers. And yet discrimination in pay practices continues. To learn more about achieving pay equity, click here.

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Why and How to Conduct an Effective Pay Equity Audit

Trusaic

These four federal statutes ban discrimination in pay: The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA). The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). What’s more, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 extends the statute of limitations for pay discrimination claims and Executive Order 11246 prohibits pay discrimination by federal contractors.

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Why and How to Conduct an Effective Pay Equity Audit

Trusaic

These four federal statutes ban discrimination in pay: The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA). The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). What’s more, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 extends the statute of limitations for pay discrimination claims and Executive Order 11246 prohibits pay discrimination by federal contractors.

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Age Discrimination in the Workplace

Paycor

If so, your company could be headed to the courtroom to defend itself against an age discrimination lawsuit. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson passed the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which is designed to protect job candidates and employees 40 and up from age discrimination in the workplace. Assignments.

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Marijuana, Opioids and Disability Discrimination: What Employers Should Know

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In an era where employers are having to plan for changes in workplace drug testing compliance, primarily due to evolving marijuana laws and our nations opioid crisis, another compliance beast continues to rear confuse employers: Disability Discrimination. Both federal and state laws provide this protection.

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Obesity and Its Relationship to Disability Discrimination

HR Daily Advisor

Naturally, most employers strive to take every legal precaution they can and to put forth their best effort to remain in compliance with all employment laws. Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is no exception. Obesity and Its Relationship to Disability Discrimination. soulrebel83 / iStock / Getty Images.