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OSU Settles Age Discrimination Lawsuit Filed By Two Former Instructors

nytimes.com

Ohio State University has agreed to pay 765 thousand dollars and review its policies to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by two women who said they were forced to retire as instructors.

Julianne Taaffe and Kathryn Moon sued the school in 2015. Both taught English as a second language. They retired in late 2014 after the length of their contracts was cut. Their complaint alleged a program director equated working with older instructors as "herding hippos." An Ohio State spokesperson says the school settled "in the interest of resolving this matter."
 
For more on this story, here is a link to a piece published in 2016 by the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/your-money/trying-to-make-a-case-for-age-discrimination.html

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