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On Monday, three House Republicans and three House Democrats reintroduced the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA), billed as a bipartisan proposal to strengthen anti-discrimination protections for older workers.
How does POWADA accomplish this?
The Age Discrimination In Employment Act makes it unlawful for an employer “to 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.”
In 2008, the Supreme Court in Gross v. FBL Financial Services concluded that a plaintiff bringing an ADEA disparate-treatment claim must prove, by
