Age Discrimination In Employment Act Of 1967

If you're old enough to remember the passage of this act, then it definitely applies to you.

The law, passed (as you might have guessed) in 1967, prevents employers from discriminating against workers who are 40 years old or older. Basically, it bars companies from taking the age of an older worker into account when they make decisions about things like hiring, pay, promotion or firing.

The law has been amended and updated over the years, most notably in 1990 with the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act and in 1991, when parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 tweaked the age discrimination statutes.

Hmmm...first passed in 1967, just when the Greatest Generation types were starting to face some age discrimination...and then revised in the 1990s, just when the baby boomers were starting to get a little touch of grey, as the Grateful Dead used to say.

When do Millennials start to turn 40 again?