Age and Employment
Historically, the issue of age has been a factor in employment in several ways. One is the minimum age for many kinds of employment, governed by state and federal child labor laws. More commonly, however, the discussion of age and employment centers on older workers and their treatment.
For many years the positive or negative treatment of employees based on their age was not a recognized area for complaint under federal law; indeed, it was such a controversial category of protection that it was stripped from its place in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Nonetheless, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was finally adopted in 1967 and has guided U.S. policy on age discrimination ever since. Specifically,...
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