Long-Running Age Bias Class Action Against FAA Reshuffled

A group of 211 former federal flight service controllers has been added to a 14-year-old class action that accuses the Federal Aviation Administration of age discrimination.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a March 21 opinion agreed that three of the workers were wrongly dropped from the case in 2008 for failing to exhaust their administrative remedies under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act before the lawsuit was filed in 2005.

The original lawsuit alleged that roughly 800 flight service controllers were sacked because they were 40 or older when the FAA awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. ...