Equal Employment Opportunity: Age Discrimination

Statistics

In Fiscal Year 2002, EEOC received 19,921 charges of age discrimination. EEOC resolved 18,673 age discrimination charges in FY 2002 and recovered $55.7 million in monetary benefits for charging parties and other aggrieved individuals (not including monetary benefits obtained through litigation).

• Charge Statistics: Age Discrimination

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EEOC's guidelines on age discrimination are available in the Code of Federal Regulations, at:

• 29 C.F.R Part 1625: Age Discrimination in Employment Act
• 29 C.F.R Part 1626: Procedures--Age Discrimination in Employment Act
• 29 C.F.R Part 1627: Records to be made or kept relating to age: notices to be posted: administrative exemptions

The EEOC has issued Enforcement Guidances and Other Policy Documents on the ADEA, as well as information on:

• Enforcement Guidance on O'Connor v. Consolidated Coin Caterers Corp.
• Compliance Manual Section 10: Compensation Discrimination
• Compliance Manual Section 3: Employee Benefits
  • See also: Questions and Answers: Compliance Manual Section on Employee Benefits
  • See also: Rescission of Section IV (B) of EEOC Compliance Manual Chapter on "Employee Benefits" and deletion of example

The text of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act is also available.

You may also be interested in:

• Filing a Discrimination Charge with the EEOC
• Mediation at EEOC
• Training and Outreach

This page was last modified on January 6, 2004.

Source: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission