Abstract
Thirty-three years ago, in the course of debating the legislation that eventually was enacted into law as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress began-albeit very tentatively-to address age discrimination in the workplace. While it rejected attempts to amend the 1964 bill to include age within the then-pending menu of proscribed bases for workplace decision-making, i.e., race, color, national origin, religion, and sex, Congress did direct the Secretary of Labor to undertake a study to ascertain the nature and extent of age bias in employment and to make recommendations for dealing with this discrimination, if it in fact existed.
Recommended Citation
Howard C. Eglit,
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act at Thirty: Where It's Been, Where It Is Today, Where It's Going,
31
U. Rich. L. Rev.
579
(1997).
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