La-Z-Boy Defeats Workers’ Age Bias, Leave Lawsuit Before Trial

La-Z-Boy Inc. is free of allegations that it discriminated against two workers because of their age when it failed to recall them after a furlough during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.

There’s no genuine dispute that the furniture chain’s decision not to bring the workers back to their previous positions wasn’t based on age, the Us District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee said. And La-Z-Boy couldn’t have discriminated against them by not hiring them for new roles because they never applied, the Wednesday opinion said.

Charlotte Monday and Darlene Patton worked for La-Z-Boy at a ...