Company Fired Human Resources Director Because of Her Age in Plan to Replace Older Workers With Younger Workers, Federal Agency Charges

ATLANTA – Fischer Connectors, Inc., a Swiss-based national manufacturer of circular connectors used in medical devices, will pay $460,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.

The EEOC’s suit charged that in early 2019, under the direction of its new president and chief executive officer, Fischer Connectors made plans to systematically eliminate all older management and sales employees and replace them with a new, younger workforce. The human resources director witnessed the chief executive officer making dozens of discriminatory, age-related comments about current and potential employees. The human resources director then witnessed Fischer Connectors repeatedly turning down qualified older employees in favor of less-qualified younger employees, and forcing older upper-management employees out of the company under the guise of “job eliminations.” When the human resources director questioned these actions and attempted to educate Swiss executives about anti-discrimination laws in the United States, she was fired and replaced by two significantly younger individuals.

Such alleged conduct violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) which prohibits discrimination against applicants and employees aged 40 and above on the basis of...

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