Age Discrimination Harder to Prove

If you have been considering an age discrimination lawsuit against your employer, things just got a whole lot tougher thanks to a new Supreme Court ruling. The case, which was decided by a 5-4 ruling, states that employers will not have to prove that they did not commit age discrimination.
 
It all started when 53-year-old Jack Gross sued his employer, FBL Financial Services Inc. in Iowa, over what he perceived as age discrimination. He claimed that he had been demoted because of his age and that his job was taken by a younger female worker, which led him to bring a …read more