More Employment Law Cases Taken by U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted a retaliation case and an age discrimination case. In the retaliation case, an employee claims she was fired after 30 years on the job, because she cooperated in a sexual harassment investigation of the person holding the top human resources position with her employer.
The age discrimination case (the fifth age case taken by the Court for this term) involves a reduction in force where 30 out of 31 RIF’d employees were over the age of 40. The number of age cases now before the Court seems to support my prediction that age discrimination will be the big employment law issue for a while. This may also suggest that the failure of politicians to address some difficult issues under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (see my post on the presidential candidates) will cause these issues to be sorted out by the Court.
In any event, we’ll get plenty of employment law guidance from the Court this year.
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