Bar on Shortening Worker’s Time to Sue Applies Under ADA, ADEA

Jan. 15, 2021, 9:54 PM UTC

Recent precedent rejecting employer attempts to contractually reduce the amount of time a worker has to sue for job discrimination applies with equal force under federal laws prohibiting age and disability bias and isn’t limited to the law barring race, sex, and other forms of unequal treatment, the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday.

It held in Logan v. MGM Grand Detroit Casino in September 2019 that it would disrupt the procedural mechanisms created by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act for combating workplace discrimination to permit an employer to shorten a worker’s time to sue, the court said. The ...

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