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NC Company Settles Age Discrimination Case Over Rest Area Jobs

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber
Published October 26, 2020 at 8:22 AM EDT
Seal of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Courtesy of the EEOC at https://www.eeoc.gov/.

A North Carolina company that maintains state-owned rest areas has settled a discrimination case with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Liberty Support Services will pay almost $40,000 under terms of the settlement.

Four people brought an age discrimination suit against the company. They had been attendants at a rest area in Cherokee County. All of them were over 40. 

The company closed the building for renovations in 2016. The attendants expected to return to their jobs when it opened up again. Instead, they were replaced by younger workers, according to the EEOC.

The attendants sued, saying their rights under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act had been violated. 

The settlement also requires the company to adopt an anti-discrimination policy and provide training for its owners and employees.
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Paul Garber
Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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