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• holding that complaints must be specific enough to notify management of the type of discrimination at issue to constitute “protected activity”
• holding that letter written by rejected job applicant that “complains about unfair treatment in general” is not protected
• holding that a letter complaining of “unfair treatment in general” but not specifically discrimination was not protected activity
• holding that a letter complaining of “unfair treatment in general” but not specifically age discrimination was not ADEA protected activity
• holding that plaintiff's “general complaint of unfair treatment d[id] not translate into a charge of illegal age discrimination” under the ADEA
• holding that protected activity for purposes of identical anti-retaliation provision of ADEA requires specific allegation of unlawful age discrimination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).