PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Secretary of Labor must study why workers are forced to retire and send findings and any suggested changes in the law to the President and Congress. The study must look at how raising the upper age limit to 70 affected retirements, whether removing that age limit is possible, whether raising it above 70 is possible, and how exemptions for some executives and tenured teachers work. The Secretary can do the study personally or hire others. An interim report must go to the President and Congress by January 1, 1981, and the final report by January 1, 1982.

Title 29, §624

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(a)(1)The Secretary of Labor 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 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, relating to certain executive employees, and the exemption contained in section 631(d) of this title, relating to tenured teaching personnel.

(2)The Secretary 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.

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section 3(a) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Amendments

of 1978, referred to in subsec. (a)(1)(A), is section 3(a) of Pub. L. 95–256, Apr. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 189, which amended section 631 of this title.

Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–256 designated existing provisions as par. (1), added cls. (A) to (D), added par. (2), and added subsec. (b). Study To Analyze Potential Consequences of Elimination of Mandatory Retirement on Institutions of Higher Education Pub. L. 99–592, § 6(c), Oct. 31, 1986, 100 Stat. 3344, required the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, not later than 12 months after Oct. 31, 1986, to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for the conduct of a study to analyze the potential consequences of the elimination of mandatory retirement on institutions of higher education and to report the results of the study, with recommendations, to the President and to Congress not later than 5 years after Oct. 31, 1986.

§624 Study by Secretary of Labor; Reports to President and Congress; Scope of Study; Implementation of Study; Transmittal Date of Reports

Summary

Title 29, §624

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