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By Jon Hyman
Sep. 10, 2020
The EEOC has sued Ohio State University for age discrimination, alleging that the school discriminated against a 53-year-old human resources generalist because of his age by assigning a substantial substantial portion of his duties to a short-tenured co-worker 25 years his junior.
“If a termination is age-discriminatory, disguising it behind a supposed reduction in force will not change that,” says EEOC Regional Attorney Debra Lawrence in discussing the filing of the lawsuit.
What does this lawsuit, which challenges a termination that occurred all the way back in March 2018, have to do with the COVID-19 pandemic?
“My clients are being told they’re laid off because of COVID and are asking why the kid they trained for two years still has a job,” says Stephen Console of Console Mattiacci Law in Philadelphia, who’s filed about 30 age and disability discrimination cases with administrative agencies since the pandemic started. “The question is what criteria they’re using to say who stays and who goes.”
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