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Implications of Implementing the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).
Delon, Floyd G. – 1980
Amendments to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 have extended protection up to age 70 for employees of (1) all governmental agencies, (2) employers of 20 or more persons, (3) employment agencies, and (4) labor organizations. Court cases involving age discrimination have touched on the applicability of the law and its effect on…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Court Litigation, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Litigation on Rights of the Handicapped in Education.
Delon, Floyd G. – 1979
The constitutional basis for laws concerning rights of the handicapped lies in the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses. Recent litigation has been based on Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, P.L. 94-142. Significant court decisions affecting education have been handed down in five areas. Regarding right to free…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Disabilities, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education
The Control of Teacher Conduct: Impacts on School Social Climate.
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Delon, Floyd G. – Education and Urban Society, 1982
Examines the status of legal authority relative to control of teacher conduct before the 1960s and analyzes subsequent developments in the areas of constitutional rights, civil rights, State courts' protection of teachers' privacy, and collective bargaining. Considers how legal restrictions affect the extent of school officials' authority.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Civil Liberties, Collective Bargaining, Court Litigation
Employees.
Delon, Floyd G.; Bartman, Robert E. – 1979
The bulk of this chapter is devoted to three areas of contention: discrimination in employment (including discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, age, and handicapping condition), the discipline and dismissal of employees (including separate discussions of such causes as insubordination, neglect of duty, unprofessional conduct, incompetence,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Age, Civil Liberties, Court Litigation
Employees.
Delon, Floyd G. – 1980
Chapter 2 of a book on school law, this chapter summarizes 1979 court cases concerning school employees. The author deals with cases in the areas of employment discrimination, dismissal and discipline of employees, tenure, substantive constitutional rights of employees, procedural due process for employee dismissal, immunity and liability under…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Dismissal (Personnel)
Employees.
Delon, Floyd G. – 1978
While the nature of disputes between school employees and employers remained constant in 1977, the number of cases increased to 300. This chapter discusses some of those cases including Mt. Healthy Community School District v. Doyle, a key decision on employee substantive constitutional rights. General topics covered include discrimination in…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation