Cook v. Buxton, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
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Applies 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Turner v. Schering-Plough Corp. · Gray · Nathanson v. Medical College of Pennsylvania · Healy v. New York Life Insurance · Coventry v. United States Steel Corp.
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“An individual may not waive any right or claim under this chapter " unless the release meets the listed criteria. Ibid. (emphasis added). The Act referred to in the OWBPA is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. § 626 , not the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act. In evaluating the necessity that the release specifically refer to the CEPA claim, we note the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently rejected the argument that an employee release was invalid because it failed to name the federal employee-protection statute on which the employee sought to base his claim, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), 29 U.S.C. § 2101-2109 . The court reasoned: Williams contends that the releases were invalid because they did not mention WARN. This argument is meritless. There is no obligation under WARN or the common law for the defendants to mention WARN for the releases to be valid. The releases stated that they included all claims relating to the "time of my employment or to my layoff....”
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