The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has hit AT&T with an age discrimination lawsuit. The EEOC is the federal agency charged with enforcing federal labor and employment laws.
According to the complaint filed in the United States District Court, District of New York by lawyers for the EEOC, AT&T denied reemployment to older workers that previously opted to retire under the company's Voluntary Retirement Incentive Program.
The EEOC claims that a disproportionate number of older workers did not have the same opportunity to apply for reemployment as the other workers, thus resulting in age discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
AT&T has office in Basking Ridge, New Jersey and is also subject to New Jersey employment laws, such as the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, which also prohibits age discrimination in employment.
