Bipartisan House Bill Would Bolster Age Bias Shields in Hiring

A bipartisan bill would clarify that job applicants age 40 or older can challenge facially neutral hiring practices as discriminatory under disparate impact legal theory.

The Protect Older Job Applicants Act explicitly states that protections in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 would apply to job applicants as well as current employees.

The push to broaden disparate impact protections in federal age discrimination law comes as the Trump administration is ordering federal agencies that enforce civil rights laws not to use the legal theory.

The bill was reintroduced in the House Monday by Education and Workforce Committee ...