Suit targets Allstate's rehire moratorium.Having been cleared in April of claims that a 4-year-old reorganization plan constituted age discrimination against long-time employee-agents, personal-lines insurer Allstate faces a new suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The complaint, filed Oct. 7 in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, charges Allstate with violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Pub. L. No. 90-202, 81 Stat. 602 (Dec. 15, 1967), codified as Chapter 14 of Title 29 of the United States Code, through (ADEA), prohibits employment discrimination against persons 40 years of age or older in the United States (see ). of 1967 and the Fair Labor Standards Act Fair Labor Standards Act or Wages and Hours Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1938 to establish minimum living standards for workers engaged directly or indirectly in interstate commerce, including those involved in production of goods bound of 1938 for instituting a moratorium on hiring back former employee-agents, more than 90% of whom reportedly were over the age of 40. In April, Judge John P. Fullam John P. Fullam is a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Born in 1921 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania Judge Fullam graduated from Villanova University in 1942. From 1942 to 1948 Judge Fullam served in the United States Navy Reserves. in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that Allstate didn't practice age discrimination when it terminated roughly 6,400 agents in June 2000. In a case filed by former agents and later joined by the EEOC EEOC abbr. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC n abbr (US) (= Equal Employment Opportunities Commission) → comisión que investiga discriminación racial o sexual en el empleo , Fullam ruled that while Allstate didn't violate the ADEA ADEA Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 ADEA American Dental Education Association (Washington, DC) ADEA Association for the Development of Education in Africa (RSA) , releases the company asked employees to sign between November 1999 and June 2000 may have violated the Older Workers' Benefit Protection Act. |
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