As an HR Professional you must be familiar with several laws and pieces of legislation that affects your practices. What act makes it illegal to discriminate against older workers with respect to bene

The OWBPA is a 1990 amendment to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) that explicitly prohibits employers from denying or reducing benefits to employees based on age and bars the practice of singling out older workers for reductions in force. It also establishes strict requirements for any waiver of ADEA rights, such as those included in severance agreements, ensuring such waivers are knowing and voluntary. These protections are unique to the OWBPA and go beyond the original ADEA's scope.

OASDI (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) is the federal Social Security program providing retirement and disability benefits and contains no employment anti-discrimination provisions.

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) governs the privacy, security, and portability of health information and insurance coverage, not age discrimination in employment practices.

MHPA (Mental Health Parity Act) requires parity between mental health and medical or surgical benefit limits in employer health plans and has no connection to age-based employment discrimination.