83-Year-Old Staffing Agency Worker Has Age Bias Claim

A security staffing company may be liable for age discrimination after removing an 83-year-old receptionist from a work site at the client’s request without investigation, a federal appeals court ruled (Nicholson v. Securitas Sec. Servs. USA, Inc., 2016 BL 230135, 5th Cir., No. 15-10582, 7/18/16).

A jury must decide whether Securitas Security Services USA Inc. should have known of its joint-employer client’s alleged age bias against Helen Nicholson, who was replaced by a 29-year-old worker, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said.

A jury also must determine whether Securitas failed to ...