Clackamas Fire Protection District No. 1 v. Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal from an order of the Commission of the Bureau of Labor (Bureau) in which she found that the Clackamas Fire Protection District (District or petitioner) discriminated against two job applicants on the basis of age. The Commissioner’s order directed the District to pay the two complainants $10,609 and $15,307 respectively as compensation for back pay, representing the difference between what they would have earned if they had been hired by the District and what they actually did earn, and enjoined the District from setting any maximum age limit for employment as a dispatcher,…