The federal law of age discrimination in the U.S.A

The American workforce and society as a whole is aging, and age-based decisions and policies are increasingly under attack as violative of a civil right. At the federal level, the response has been to deal with discrete problems as they arise by separate pieces of legislation: of age bias in the administration of programs receiving federal funds; of age bias in employment; and of decisions based upon the reduction of benefit costs that impact with special harshness on older workers. The author supplies a very brief and simplified overview of the relevant federal law in the U.S.A.