Age Harassment and Discrimination
Not sure whether the issue of age discrimination will effect you? Look at some of these Age Discrimination cases and monetary awards:
Kmart Corporation will pay a settlement and furnish other relief to settle an age harassment, constructive discharge and retaliation lawsuit. Over the course of four years, a pharmacy manager openly professed on several occasions that the pharmacist was “too old,” “should just retire,” and was “greedy” for continuing to work at age 70. Further, the manager continued to humiliate her in writing by stating, “The pharmacy is no longer your forte” and “You need to retire from pharmacy work now,” in a communication book open to the entire department. The manager also purposely scheduled her to work on Sundays – knowing that she attended church those days.
Award: $120,000 in monetary relief
A Chicago-based restaurant supply company terminated a 64 year-old Sales Representative. The employee was told, when laying him off, that he was selected because the company expected him to retire in 8 months when he reached age 65, and it wanted to keep younger sales representatives who had a future with the company.
Award: $162,000 in monetary relief
The Bayville Fire Company on Long Island has agreed to settle a class age discrimination lawsuit. The suit had alleged that the fire company and villages had refused to let volunteer firefighters over age 65 accrue credit toward a “length of service award” (LOSAP), the equivalent of a retirement pension, because of their age. As a result, senior firefighters lost pension amounts after they turned 65.
Award: $180,000 — $240,000 in damages
