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Partners are "employees"? - EEOC v. Sidley Austin
December 21, 2005 by Ross Runkel at LawMemo
A U.S. District Judge will allow EEOC's suit against the Sidley Austin Brown & Wood law firm to go forward, saying the EEOC could obtain monetary relief for "partners" expelled or forced to retire on account of their age.
An EEOC press release dated December 20 says, in part:
The EEOC lawsuit is a "class" age discrimination case brought, first, with respect to 31 former Sidley & Austin partners who were involuntarily downgraded and expelled from the partnership in October 1999 on account of their age; and, second, with respect to other partners who were involuntarily retired from Sidley & Austin since 1978 on account of their age pursuant to a mandatory retirement policy. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) prohibits employers with 20 or more employees from making employment decisions, including decisions regarding the termination of employment, on the basis of age (over 40). The ADEA also prohibits such employers from utilizing policies or rules which require employees to retire when they reach a particular age (over 40).
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