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Separation Agreement Age Discrimination

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Colorado Employers - Get Ready for a Wave of New Laws

The Colorado General Assembly was busy drafting and passing numerous employment laws during its 2022 legislative session, creating a wave of change for employers in the Centennial State. Colorado Expands Termination Notice...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Do Arbitration Agreements Have To Comply With The OWBPA?

I can't imagine why they would. In 2014, I blogged that IBM Corporation had made a conscious decision in its separation agreements to quit including the disclosures required by the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act....more

Genova Burns LLC

Beware the Boilerplate: New Jersey Court Finds Discrimination from Language in an Unsigned Settlement Agreement

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Just in time for Halloween, on October 31, 2018, a New Jersey federal court held that an unsigned, non-binding separation agreement could provide relevant background evidence of age discrimination, and that employers anywhere...more

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Employee Separation Agreements – A Refresher, Part Three

My first two posts on this topic have discussed provisions that must – under federal law, specifically the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act – be included in employee separation agreements if the employee’s release of...more

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Employee Separation Agreements – A Refresher (The Sequel)

In our last post on this topic, we reviewed the essential elements of a valid employee separation agreement that includes an employee’s release of claims against the employer (i.e., the agreement must be made knowingly and...more

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Employee Separation Agreements – A Refresher

There is one conversation I have with my clients who are employers more frequently than any other. It’s the one that begins, “We’ve decided to let so-and-so go. Do we have to have an agreement of some kind?” Here is what you...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Another One Bites The Dust At “Mach” Speed: EEOC’s Age Discrimination Lawsuit Dismissed Based On Failure To Conciliate

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We’ve previously blogged about the impact the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Mach Mining v. EEOC, 135 S. Ct. 1645 (2015), most recently here and here. As we predicted, the true impact of Mach Mining will not be...more

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Do Discharges Resulting From a Career Planning Program Amount to Group Termination Under the OWBPA?

In Barnes v. The Hershey Company, No. 3:12-cv-01334, Judge Charles R. Breyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment to an employer on the age claims brought by several...more

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