An Employer Who Raises the Same-Actor Defense Asserts That

question 40

Multiple Choice

An employer who raises the same-actor defense asserts that:

• A) when a worker protected by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act is hired and fired by the same person, there is a permissible inference that an employee's age was not a motivating factor in the decision to terminate.
• B) employees in the motion picture, television, and theater industries are not protected under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act if they are replaced by a younger performer who has already performed the same part in another production.
• C) when an employee signs a defective waiver under the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, the employee must repay any benefits received under the defective waiver.
• D) when other persons have influence or leverage over the official decision maker, it is proper to impute their discriminatory attitudes to the formal decision maker.

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