Ashley Furniture Franchise Must Face Manager’s Age Bias Suit

A 50-year-old man fired from his job managing Ashley Furniture stores in the Chicago area had his age discrimination and retaliation claims revived June 7 by the Seventh Circuit.

Humberto Trujillo’s lawsuit shouldn’t have been dismissed just because he omitted from his administrative bias charge one word of the registered business name of the company that owns the Ashley franchises where he worked, the appeals court said.

The intent of federal anti-discrimination laws is to reduce workplace bias, and that purpose isn’t served by denying workers access to the judicial system based on such technicalities, the U.S. Court of Appeals ...