Mealey's (September 24, 2018, 12:34 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — Retroactive monetary awards such as back pay are mandatory legal remedies under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Sept. 19, vacating a trial court’s ruling that a back pay award in an age-based pension rate dispute was discretionary, not mandatory (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Baltimore County, et al., No. 16-2216, 4th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 26644)....