THAT MANDATORY RETIREMENT POLICY JUST AIN'T RIDING WITH THE FEDS!

Press Release: A Houston manufacturer will pay $60,000 and provide other relief to settle an age 
discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.

    According to the EEOC’s suit, filed in November 2010, Metallic Products Corp. had an unlawful mandatory retirement policy which required employees to retire upon reaching age 70.  Before he turned 70, company officials advised Jeronimo Vidals that he would be required to retire upon reaching 70 years of age. Then, on his 70th birthday, he was fired from the company pursuant to its unlawful mandatory retirement policy.

    “With rare exception, mandatory retirement policies violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which prohibits forcing an employee to retire at any particular age,”
said R.J. Ruff, Jr., district director of the EEOC’s Houston District Office.