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Getting your wages garnished is an embarrassing situation, often made worse but at least a perceived threat of losing your job. While most employers know that they can’t threaten job loss if an employee’s wages are being garnished, that doesn’t stop many of them from making the garnishee’s life uncomfortable about the whole thing.

In fact, you cannot be fired from a job because someone has garnished your wages, although multiple garnishments may be a different story. You are protected by Title Three of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA).

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Many summer jobs, particularly in agriculture and construction, require employees to drive various vehicles as a part of the job. Small companies, especially, may be tempted to put young people in positions of responsibility in general, and have them driving in particular, without really knowing what the rules about teenage driving on the job are.

There are very strict federal rules about teenagers driving on the job.

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The U.S. Supreme Court, in a June 18, 2009 decision, has limited a claimant’s ability to prove an age discrimination case in court. The case, Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. (08-441), decided by a 5-4 margin, decided a burden of proof issue that had never been completely resolved since the passage of the ADEA in 1967.

The question involved what happens in “mixed motive” cases, where there may have been some “legitimate” (i.e., non-discriminatory) factor, in addition to age, that played a part in the employer’s action. In Gross, for example, the plaintiff was demoted as part of a restructuring, but there was evidence age bias played a part in the decision.

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