A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it more difficult for employees to prove age discrimination charges against their employers.
The high court, in a 5-4 decision by Justice Clarence Thomas, held that the text of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act does not allow a worker to establish discrimination by showing that age was one motivating factor for the employer’s action. Instead, the majority held, employees must show that age was the decisive factor behind the employer’s adverse job action.
