S. 1511 · 101st Congress · enacted
Older Workers Benefit Protection Act
Became Public Law No: 101-433.
Latest official action 1990-10-16 · Enacted
The bill, briefly
Older Workers Benefit Protection Act - Title I: Older Workers Benefit Protection - Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) to specify that it prohibits discrimination against older workers in all employee benefits except when age-based reductions in employee benefit plans are justified by significant cost considerations. Declares that, as used in ADEA, the phrase "compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" encompasses all employee benefits, including those provided under a bona fide employee benefit plan. Allows employers to take any action otherwise prohibited under ADEA to observe the terms of a bona fide seniority system that is not intended to evade the purposes of ADEA, but prohibits such systems from requiring or permitting involuntary retirement because of age. Allows employers to take any action otherwise prohibited under ADEA to observe the terms of bona fide employee benefit plans under specified conditions. Requires that the actual amount of payment made or cost incurred on behalf of an older worker be no less than that made or incurred on behalf of a younger worker, for each benefit or benefit package, in order for an employee benefit plan not to violate ADEA. Allows observance of bona fide voluntary early retirement incentive plans that are consistent with the relevant purposes of ADEA. Prohibits such employee benefit plan…
Congressional Research Service · 1990-09-24
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