Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. MN Law Enforcement Assoc., No. 10-2699 (8th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseThe Minnesota Law Enforcement Association (MLEA) appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), concluding as a matter of law that the MLEA's retirement plan arbitrarily discriminated against older employees on the basis of age, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. 623. The court held that this exclusively age-based reduction in benefits typified "arbitrary age discrimination" and therefore failed to meet the ADEA's safe harbor requirements. The court also held that, although the Department of Corrections was not obligated under federal law to employ certain persons over the age of 55 for reasons that could include age, it could not discriminate against all persons over age 55 solely due to their age. Therefore, the court affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment.
Court Description: Civil case - Employment. District court did not err in finding that defendant's retirement plan arbitrarily discriminated against older employees on the basis of age and violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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