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By Josh Israel -January 15, 2020 5:30 PM
The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act restores workers' ability to file lawsuits against their employers.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill, 261-155, to protect older Americans from job discrimination.
All Democrats present and 34 Republicans voted yes.
154 Republicans and one Independent, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, opposed the bipartisan measure, arguing that it might instead help discrimination-law attorneys.
Since the implementation of the 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act, most workers over the age of 40 have been protected against employment discrimination solely on the basis of age. But a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in 2009 held that older Americans must prove that age discrimination was the sole motivating factor, not just a significant consideration, in order to sue under the law.
https://americanindependent.com/house-republicans-protecting-older-workers-against-discrimination-act-gop-congress/
And if anyone in the state of North Carolina thinks that this congresswoman Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC) loves your parents.........................she does not.......................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough........................
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JDC
(10,129 posts)Courtesy of your GOP and Corporate Capitalism.
spanone
(135,844 posts)hate the fuckers.
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)Its these older voters that constitute one of the major voting blocks that keep them in office (The much younger whipper-snappers being far more inclined to vote Democratic), and THIS is how these people repay them for their support.
Yet these older voters still go out and vote for them.
Go figure.
Ohiogal
(32,006 posts)Trump has shown little concern for assisting older Americans since taking office, even undermining critical nursing home and eldercare protections under pressure from lobbyists.
Sure, hes got his, to heck with all the losers who didnt plan to become millionaires.
I hate him with the force of a tsunami and the heat of a thousand suns.
Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)From the AARP Bulletin:
https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2019/age-discrimination-in-america.html