The Boston Area Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Thermal Forms, Inc. in June 2005 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The complaint alleged that the defendant violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act when it discharged its five oldest employees whose average age was 50 and replaced them with younger, less-qualified employees whose average age was 30. The parties engaged in court-ordered mediation and entered into a consent decree in April 2006. The two-year consent decree required the defendant to refrain from discrimination and retaliation; pay a total of $130,600 in damages; create an anti-discrimination policy; post a notice of equal employment opportunity laws; train its supervisors on the ADEA; and make biannual reports to the EEOC. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Kevin Wilemon - 06/11/2008


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