A New Mexico nursing home allowed a supervisor to harass employees over 40 and later fired two women who claimed discrimination, according to a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The June 18 civil action requests a jury trial for South Valley Care Center, which the EEOC said subjected “a class of aggrieved individuals to harassment because of their age … and failed to prevent and correct this harassment.”
Maria Nevarez and Maria Perez both worked in the nursing home’s laundry department and had highly rated on-the-job performance. Government officials said that began to change for Nevarez in 2014, when Nevarez got pregnant in her 40s…