Weekly retirement questions and a request to train his replacement anchor the technician’s case
A 67-year-old chemical technician says Agilent fired him over a heated exchange to hide years of race and age discrimination.
A former chemical technician is suing Agilent Technologies, arguing the company used a single workplace argument as cover to force out an older Black employee after years of unequal treatment.
The complaint, filed September 3, 2026 in federal court in Delaware, accuses Agilent of race and age discrimination under federal and Delaware law, including Title VII and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. He was 67 when he lost his job.
He joined the plant in 2010 as a contractor and was hired on directly as a chemical technician in 2012, earning steady reviews, raises, and bonuses, according to the filing. Even so, he says he waited about two years for a direct-hire offer while white contractors were typically brought on within six to twelve months. He alleges he was turned down for training classes that younger colleagues got, and that a manager dismissed his process ideas - including a pitch to use a machine to mix a chemical - leaving him to stir the product by hand for years.
The age claims sharpen in late 2023. In December of that year, the complaint says, a plant manager began asking him retirement questions week after week, including “Do you have plans to retire?” and “You’re collecting Social Security now, aren’t you?” He says he was told to train...
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