Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) passed an effort to ensure that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has the resources necessary to address age discrimination in the workplace.
The amendment was included in the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (H.R. 1230), which passed the U.S. House by a vote of 261-to-155.
“The American workforce is getting older and working longer than ever before. At the same time, complaints of age discrimination are on the rise,” said Congressman DeSaulnier. “To better support the EEOC in its work and meaningfully address age discrimination in the workplace, Congress needs to understand the full scope of the problem as well as any gaps in the agency’s ability to address and prevent such incidents.”
The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act would once again allow older workers to use the same standard of proof for discrimination like workers who face discrimination based on other characteristics like race, sex, national origin or religion – overturning a 2009 Supreme Court ruling. Congressman DeSaulnier’s amendment would require a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the EEOC’s ability to meet the demands of its workload; its plans for investigating systemic age discrimination; and options for improving EEOC’s ability to respond to allegations of age discrimination.
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We would not have to keep working into our senior years in the first place if the Democrats would STOP RAISING OUR TAXES YOU IDIOT!!!!
Hey Desucky why don’t you get the unions to let retirees work without being penalized against there pension. Government employees are able to retire from multiple places.
Hey Frank! “There” pensions? Where pensions? I think the term is “Their”
I have friends who worked as IT specialists at the U of Ca, San Francisco campus and were let go so that cheap labor from India could take their jobs. They were offered a months extra salary but ONLY if they trained their replacements.— this I would never do. I’d tell them to take their money and shove it.
60 MINUTES ran two segments on this story. These are the people who should be protected. The replacement had to be trained which means they were not up-to-speed. The University of California (all campuses) are tax-payer supported. ALL tax payers should be up-in-arms over this.
Who were the 155 assholes who voted against the passage of this measure?
Mark must have decided he is a senior but only recently.
While employers are now allowed to ask people their ages on applications, online — they get around it by asking what year you graduated from high school . . and from that they can figure out your age, if they have enough fingers and toes.
Ooops! My mistake. It should say, “now employers are NOT allowed to ask people’s ages…..” Sorry about that.
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