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A federal lawsuit accuses Ford Motor Company of cutting a 57-year-old data analyst after 28 years - just two years short of a key pension milestone.
The complaint, filed September 28 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, alleges the worker’s termination was part of what it calls a company-wide “stealth” or “soft layoff” program. According to the filing, Ford manipulated its performance rating system to manufacture grounds for terminating salaried employees without announcing formal layoffs.
The worker joined Ford as a contract employee in 1994, handling production plant launches and supply chain tracking. The company hired her as a direct employee in 1997, and for the next two decades she worked across supplier support, warehouse management, inventory, and a nine-year assignment helping roll out a global supply chain technology platform across 28 US distribution centers.
In roughly 2015, the complaint states, she identified a faster way to compile supply chain reports - cutting the process from six to eight hours down to 10 minutes - and pitched it to her superiors. By 2017, she had moved into Ford’s Global Data Insight and Analytics team, where she spent eight years training employees company-wide in building data workflows and dashboards.
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