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It provided the right to trial by jury on discrimination claims and introduced the possibility of emotional distress damages and limited the amount that a jury could award. It added provisions to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protections expanding the rights of women to sue and collect compensatory and punitive damages for sexual ...
This could include back-pay, job reinstatement, attorney's fees, expert witness fees, court costs, other compensatory damages, and punitive damages. Age-based discrimination and gender-based wage discrimination are not eligible for compensatory or punitive damages, but instead are limited to liquidated damages equal to the amount of back pay.
He was awarded $6 million in compensatory damages for back pay and $14 million for future lost earnings. The jury also awarded $100,00 for emotional distress, $1 million for punitive damages under ...
The bill would authorize the United States Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to seek additional compensatory or punitive damages in a sex discrimination action. [ 21 ] The bill would require the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to train EEOC employees and affected individuals and ...
The jury then answered another set of questions to explain how it reached its damages award—a total of $5 million, which included both compensatory damages and punitive damages, for both the ...
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Long title: An Act to amend title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and to modify the operation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to clarify that a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice that is unlawful under such Acts occurs each time ...
Potter (2008), the Supreme Court allowed federal workers, who experience retaliation as a result of reporting age discrimination under the law, to sue for damages. [10] In Kimel v. Florida Bd. of Regents, 528 U.S. 62 (2000), the Supreme Court held that state employees cannot sue states for monetary damages under the ADEA in federal court. [11]
Newman gets $43,750 in compensatory damages and $18,750 in back pay. He is responsible for taxes on those payments. His lawyers get an additional $27,500. In return, according to the settlement ...