FedEx Gets Dismissal of 75-Year-Old Employee’s Age Bias Claim

Federal Express Corp. isn’t liable for age discrimination after it fired a 75-year-old engineer, a federal court said.

Alonso Rhenals failed to show that “he was replaced or treated less favorably than a similarly situated employee,” Judge Beth Bloom said Monday for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, dismissing his claims without prejudice.

Rhenals is an MIT graduate with degrees in quantitative analysis and engineering—he has worked in both fields for 50 years. He said that after his two supervisors, Deborah Casanova and Gracilliana Yi, didn’t recognize his work on a major project, he wrote and ...