Employment Discrimination

Employment Discrimination Add’ll Prob 1 (Page D14)Tom, Dick and Jane are employed by Atlantic Motors, a large chain of used car lots with several hundred employees.

None of them was hired for a definite period of time and each has an excellent record of sales. On April 15, all of them were fired.Tom, who is 50, was told by his manager that he was being fired so that the company could “make room for young faces on the sales force.”Dick, who is 49, was fired because, on April 15, he had become frustrated with a prospective customer who was arguing about prices and had punched the customer in the nose.Jane was fired because she repeatedly refused invitations from Al, the sole owner of Atlantic, to spend weekends with him at his beach house.

Al had warned Jane that she would be fired if she continued to reject his advances.Discuss separately, whether Tom, Dick, or Jane has any claim against Atlantic Motors.Case Problem 25-4 (Page 677)Age Discrimination.

Beginning in 1986, Paul Rangel was a sales professional for pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC (S-A). Rangel had satisfactory performance reviews until 2006, when S-A issued new expectations guidelines with sales call quotas and other standards that he failed to meet.

After two years of negative performance reviews, Rangel—who was then more than forty years old—was terminated as part of a nationwide reduction of sales professionals who had not met the expectations guidelines. This sales force reduction also included younger workers.

Employment Discrimination – Question

Did S-A engage in age discrimination? Discuss. [Rangel v. Sanofi Aventis U.S. LLC, 507 Fed.Appx. 782 (10th Cir. 2013)] (See Discrimination Based on Age, Disability, or Military Status.)