Alaska (AK) Age Discrimination Law in the Workplace

August 10th, 2006 Posted by Ashley

In 1999, Alaska’s House Bill 40 consolidated several programs into the renamed “Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development” to include related employment, education, training, and vocational rehabilitation. To find information about the age discrimination area of labor law, you can visit the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Department’s website, following a link to the Alaska Labor Relations Agency. This compact page allows you to search for specific subjects such as age discrimination.

The Alaska Job Center Network site, www.jobs.state.ak.us, refers to Title I of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), as governing discrimination in the workplace. This 1998 law accomplished a number of things, among them cutting the funding streams from seventy to three to include adults, dislocated workers, and youth. In connection with this change on a federal level, the State of Alaska used a U.S. government grant to establish the Job Center Network as a one-stop delivery system for employment and training services. In the Alaska Unified Workforce Investment System, or Unified Plan, you’ll find that the WIA repealed the Job Training Partnership Act that was in place for many years.

In keeping with these nationwide changes, the State of Alaska put into place a policy document that cites various sections of the WIA regarding the complaint and appeal process. For instance, if you read page 7 of this policy document, you’ll see that it states if the alleged discrimination concerns a state-administered program, the complaint may be processed directly by the Alaska State Commission on Human Rights. However, if the complaint involves a federal program, then the procedure may take place through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Civil Rights Center.

If you have additional questions needing to be answered, you can go through the Alaska Job Center Network by following the link to the AARP website. This page cites the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which provides clear details about what the law covers.

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