Source: https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/adea50th/adea.cfm
Timestamp: 2017-10-18 07:18:00
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Civil Rights Act of 1964, §715, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, 265 (July 2, 1964).
Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Pub. L. No. 90-202, 81 Stat. 602 (December 15, 1967; effective June 15, 1968 (180 days after enactment)).
Congress extends the ADEA to employees of federal, state, and local governments.
Congress expands remedies under FLSA §16(b), 29 U.S.C. §216(b) for retaliation claims under FLSA §15(a)(3), 29 U.S.C. §215(a)(3). ADEA §7(b), 29 U.S.C. §626(b), incorporates FLSA §16(b), and deems acts prohibited under ADEA §4, 29 U.S.C. §623, to be prohibited acts under FLSA §15, as amended.
Congress raises the private-sector age of coverage from 65 to 70 and removes the age cap for federal employees to cover individuals age 40 and older in §12, 29 U.S.C. §631(a), (b). Congress makes the right to a jury trial explicit in §7(c), 29 U.S.C. §626(c), and adds language to §4(f)(2) to prohibit a seniority system or benefit plan from requiring or permitting involuntary retirement. 29 U.S.C. §623(f)(2).
Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1978, §2, 43 Fed. Reg. 19807-809 (May 9, 1978) and Executive Order No. 12144, 44 Fed. Reg. 37193 (June 22, 1979).
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, §116, Pub. L. No. 97-248, 96 Stat. 324 (September 3, 1982).
Congress amends ADEA to provide for non-discrimination in group health plan coverage for older workers.
Congress extends ADEA coverage to all individuals at least 40 years of age and eliminates the upper-age coverage cap of 70. Congress provides an exemption through 1993 for state and local governments using maximum hiring or mandatory retirement ages for firefighters or law enforcement officials for plans in effect in March 1983. Congress provides a similar exemption for colleges and universities who may involuntarily retire professors at age 70, if the professor is serving under contracts of unlimited tenure.
Congress overturns the Supreme Court's 1989 decision in Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio v. Betts. Betts held that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) did not forbid age discrimination in employee benefits except in rare circumstances. The OWBPA amends the ADEA to prohibit age discrimination in employee benefits and also establishes minimum standards for voluntary waivers of ADEA claims or rights.
Congress passes the Age Discrimination Claims Assistance Amendments of 1990 (ADCAA II) providing Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) charging parties an additional 450 days in which to file their own private ADEA lawsuits. The ADCAA II preserves the rights of charging parties to later bring their own lawsuits while permitting EEOC to process the remaining backlog of age discrimination charges.
Civil Rights Act of 1991, §115, Pub. L. No. 102-166, 105 Stat. 1071 (November 21, 1991). Congress codifies the 90-day statute of limitations provision for filing ADEA civil actions.
Congress specifies that appropriate remedies for a violation of the ADEA are awarded under ADEA §15(c), 29 U.S.C. §633a(c), for legal and equitable relief, and under ADEA §7(b), 29 U.S.C. §626(b), for liquidated damages.
Congress reenacts and amends §4(j) to the ADEA (29 U.S.C. §623(j)) to permit state governmental employers to use maximum hiring and mandatory retirement ages for firefighters and law enforcement officers pursuant to bona fide plans that are not a subterfuge to evade the purposes of the ADEA. Congress also repealed §3(b), 29 U.S.C. §623(g) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1986.
Higher Education Amendments of 1998, §941, Pub. L. No. 105-244, 112 Stat. 1581 (October 7, 1998).
Congress enacts the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 to amend Section 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (29 U.S.C. §623) to permit colleges and universities to offer special age-based retirement incentives for tenured faculty members at institutions of higher education; this amendment replaces the former temporary exemptions which permitted colleges and universities to mandatorily retire tenured faculty members at age 65 and later at age 70.
Pension Protection Act of 2006, § 701(c), Pub. L. 109-280, 120 Stat. 780 (August 17, 2006).
Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, §§4, 5, Pub. L. No. 111-2, 123 Stat. 5 (January 29, 2009).
Congress adds amendments to the ADEA §7(d)(3), 29 U.S.C. §626(d)(3), to clarify when an unlawful employment practice occurs with respect to claims of discrimination in compensation by private, public, and federal employees.