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- A company has agreed to pay a former employee $105,000 in back page and damages.
- According to the lawsuit, she was fired after refusing to retire at 65.
- The company replaced her with a man in his 30s, despite telling her the role was being eliminated.
A former employee will receive $105,000 in back pay and damages after her company of nearly 20 years fired her when she refused to retire at 65, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said last week.
According to a discrimination lawsuit filed by the federal agency, J&M Industries, Inc., a manufacturing and distribution company in Louisiana, violated federal age discrimination laws by firing the employee.
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act, or ADEA, prohibits discrimination against individuals aged 40 or older based on age.
In a news release outlining the suit’s outcome, the EEOC said that a company manager asked the employee, who was not named, repeatedly about her retirement plans as she approached her 65th birthday.