Philadelphia Community College Beats Ex-Workers’ Age Bias Claims

The Community College of Philadelphia defeated age discrimination lawsuits alleging it eliminated a program that allowed faculty members close to retirement to cut their workload in half while retaining full benefits.

The evidence about the program’s costs and the workers’ other pre-retirement options for decreasing their hours doesn’t support any of the former faculty members’ Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state-law bias claims, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said Monday, granting the school summary judgment in three cases.

The seven plaintiffs all formerly taught at CCP and chose to take the school’s pre-retirement workload ...