Novo Nordisk is in hot water with a U.S. agency for alleged age discrimination. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued the company for allegedly denying a lateral transfer to a 62-year-old employee because of her age and instead hiring a less-qualified 33-year-old.
Novo's employee had worked for Novo Nordisk as an obesity care specialist since 2015. When the same position opened in another territory closer to where she lived, she applied and interviewed. But instead of hiring her, the company selected someone 30 years younger from another state.
The company conducted an internal investigation and found that the hiring manager violated Novo Nordisk’s anti-discrimination policy by choosing the younger candidate because he could fill the position for the "long-term," the EEOC says. Even after finding the violation, the company denied its employee the transfer.
The conduct not only violates Novo Nordisk’s policy, but the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which was enacted by Congress in 1967, EEOC says. The law forbids discrimination against employees 40 or older. The EEOC stepped in by filing a lawsuit in New Jersey, after an initial attempt to reach a pre-litigation settlement.
The suit seeks to “remedy and prevent the age discrimination in this case,” according to an EEOC statement on the lawsuit.
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