7 strikes, and this employer is OUT!
I got way off track. I'm sorry. Here is our real topic for the day. An employer got sued for age discrimination after it fired its DEI Director. Never a good idea to discriminate against your DEI Director, of all people. (Allegedly.) The employer tried to get the case dismissed on summary judgment, but a federal judge in Tennessee (Trump appointee) denied the motion , meaning that the case will go to a jury. According to the court, the employer had not three, but seven, strikes against it. That means the employer struck out 2 and 1/3 times (I guess there were a couple of foul balls). Play-by-Play The Plaintiff was hired at age 52 to be the DEI Director for a university in Tennessee (not that big orange one in Knoxville – a different one). According to her supervisors, for the first five years of her employment, she did a good job. Then she got some new supervisors . . . when she was about 58. The new bosses said that the Plaintiff’s diversity programming was ho-hum, ...