A former Walgreens employee can proceed with a suit alleging that he was fired due to age discrimination because the company’s allegedly legitimate reasons for doing so may not have been true, a federal court said.
Jesus Yanez raised a genuine question of material fact as to whether taking home discarded broken store equipment was a fireable offense when he produced evidence of three things that suggested it was not, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas said.
According to Yanez, Walgreens knew its southwestern Texas stores often didn’t follow the company’s large item disposal policy and ...
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