Case: Discrimination/Discharge (N. D. Cal.)

A pharmaceutical company was granted summary judgment on a claim by a 64-year-old regional sales manager that he was discharged because of his age, rather than because of poor performance and multiple internal and external complaints, a federal district court in California ruled. Although he had a history of success with the company, his sales performance had been poor for two years prior to his termination and he had failed to meet two key matrices for the performance improvement plan he had been placed on, the court noted. He didn’t show that any of his proposed comparators who were retained ...