Age Discrimination Employment Act
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STUDY BY SECRETARY OF LABOR
SEC. 624. [Section 5]
(a) (1) The Secretary of Labor [EEOC] is directed to undertake
an appropriate study of institutional and other arrangements giving rise
to involuntary retirement, and report his findings and any appropriate
legislative recommendations to the President and to the Congress. Such
study shall include-
(A) an examination of the effect of the amendment made by section
3(a) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1978 in
raising the upper age limitation established by section 631(a) of this
title [section 12(a)] to 70 years of age;
(B) a determination of the feasibility of eliminating such
limitation;
(C) a determination of the feasibility of raising such limitation
above 70 years of age; and
(D) an examination of the effect of the exemption contained in
section 631(c) of this title [section 12(c)], relating to certain
executive employees, and the exemption contained in section 631(d) of this
title [section 12(d)], relating to tenured teaching personnel.
(2) The Secretary [EEOC] may undertake the study required by
paragraph (1) of this subsection directly or by contract or other
arrangement.
(b) The report required by subsection (a) of this section shall be
transmitted to the President and to the Congress as an interim report not
later than January 1, 1981, and in final form not later than January 1,
1982.
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
[All functions relating to age discrimination administration and
enforcement vested by Section 6 in the Secretary of Labor or the Civil
Service Commission were transferred to the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission effective January 1, 1979 under the President's Reorganization
Plan No. 1.]
Editor's Note
Act
Statement of finding and purpose
Education and research program
Prohibition of age discrimination
Study by secretary of labor
Administration
Recordkeeping, Investigation, and enforcement
Notice to be posted
Rules and regulations
Criminal penalties
Definitions
Age limitations
Annual report
Federal-state relationship
Nondiscrimination on account of age in federal government employment
Effective date
Appropriations