From MarketWatch.com —
The workforce is aging, but older workers are at risk of being demoted or fired without repercussions. One recent legislative proposal is aimed at preventing that.
The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (or POWADA, for short) would reverse a Supreme Court decision from 2009 that made it harder to claim age bias for a layoff or demotion. Reps. Bobby Scott, a Democrat from Virginia, and Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin, sponsored the bill in the House, and Sens. Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, and Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, sponsored it in the Senate.