Age Discrimination Lawsuit Settled With Horshal For $175,000
Frank Fesnak settles his age discrimination lawsuit with Horshal for $175,000. The lawsuit was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). According to details provided in the lawsuit Fesnak performed his duties as vice president of strategic alliances without incident but was fired because he was 47. It is alleged that after Fesnak was assigned to report to a different supervisor, the new supervisor made derogatory comments regarding older workers. Frank worked for a company called Astea, which is a professional consulting services group. Once Astea heard about the new supervisors comments it abruptly terminated Fesnak and hired someone 15 years younger to replace him.
This is typical with outsourced companies. They will do anything to keep their client happy so they can continue to do business. They apparently will even engage in discriminatory conduct if it helps their bottom line. In this case the main company Horshal engaged in discrimination by having a senior employee make the age discrimination comments whereby the outsourced company felt compelled to hire younger workers.
“We are pleased that Astea worked with us so that we could file both the complaint and the consent decree resolving the lawsuit on the same day without the parties engaging in costly litigation,” said Acting Regional Attorney Debra Lawrence
