The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws that ban discrimination in the workplace over race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability and genetic information. Yet, in this case, the agency had to defend itself against such claims.
In March, a Swiss-based manufacturer of circular connectors for medical devices agreed to a $460,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by the EEOC that alleged the company fired a human resource director and replaced her with two younger workers after she challenged the company on its plans to replace older older workers with a younger workforce.
