Company Refused To Hire 49 Yr Old Due To His Age, Feds Say. Now He's Owed $90,000
- Company refused to hire 49-year-old due to his age, feds say. Now he’s owed $90,000, The Sacramento Bee, Dec. 18, 2023. Ed.
A company is accused of discriminating against a 49-year-old job applicant — and his age — when it refused to hire him for a sales position in Colorado, according to federal officials.
Now, more than 5 years later, Exact Sciences Corporation, a molecular diagnostics company, will pay the man damages to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced in a Dec. 14 news release. In July 2018, a 3rd-party recruiter working for the company told the man he was “overqualified” for a sales position in an email explaining why he wasn’t hired, according to the agency’s lawsuit filed against Exact Sciences Corporation.
This came after Exact Sciences Corporation had rejected the man for a different position, an area manager job in Denver, because he “lacked” the needed experience, an amended complaint filed in court says. After he was rejected for the sales job, the company’s recruiter also told him that Exact Sciences Corporation was “looking for someone more junior that can ... stay with the company for years to come,” according to the EEOC.
In November 2018, the man filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC and accused the company of violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the complaint says. Exact Sciences Corporation agreed to pay the man $90,000 in damages as part of a consent decree that settles the EEOC’s lawsuit, the news release said...
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Those things can be really hard to prove. I'm impressed that he was able to do it. 
Many outfits train their hiring employees to never, ever talk or even repeat certain phrases.
(no matter what the outfits actually do..) 
