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Kenneth Terrell
Published March 23, 2021
AARP has endorsed bipartisan legislation in Congress that would strengthen protections against age discrimination in the workplace.
The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA) legislation that was introduced this week has been a goal of advocates for older Americans for more than a decade. The bill was first introduced, with AARP backing, after an adverse 2009 Supreme Court decision made it more difficult for older workers to prove claims of illegal bias based on age. POWADA would restore the long-standing protections workers age 40 and older had received under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) by resetting the standard to what it was before that 2009 ruling.
