Penn Credit Corp. Trainee Fired at Age 75 Advances Bias Claims

Penn Credit Corp. must face discrimination claims over its firing of a 75-year-old remote worker three days into her training, allegedly because her internet was too slow, a federal judge ruled.

The nationwide accounts receivables management company was wrong that Dorothy Moore didn’t adequately plead that she was qualified for the job or that the circumstances support an inference of age bias, the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said.

And Moore’s lawsuit sufficiently alleged that Penn Credit was her “joint employer” along with the third-party employment agency that recruited her, the court said.

That Moore had ...