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EEOC Decides It Didn’t Discriminate

Anne A. Marchessault

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Posted: 1 Aug 2013 14:08:47 PM

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission did not discriminate against a 71-year-old investigator applicant by hiring a candidate who was more than 30 years younger but had attended law school, the commission decided July 15 (Hardwick v. Berrien, EEOC, No. 0120110520, 7/15/13).

Sybil Hardwick failed to prove that EEOC selected the younger candidate out of discriminatory animus, the commission said, because Hardwick’s and the selectee’s qualifications were not so different in weight that no reasonable person could have chosen the selectee.

 

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