El Paso, Texas-based logistics firm Fats & Broke — which operates as Gamer Logistics — is dealing with age discrimination allegations for workers and candidates age 65 or older, in keeping with a grievance filed by the Equal Employment Alternative Fee.
The corporate allegedly fired a 69-year-old employee, refused to rent a 68-year-old applicant, and violated labor legislation for different employees and candidates, in keeping with the federal government. Additional, a legal responsibility insurance coverage coverage didn’t cowl drivers aged 65 or older, EEOC stated.
“Employers are finally answerable for their very own hiring, firing, and situations of employment,” EEOC Dallas District Workplace Director Travis Nicholson stated in an announcement. “They can’t escape legal responsibility for evident age-based employment choices simply because one other personal occasion, corresponding to an insurance coverage firm, imposes an age-based restriction.”
The federal government alleged that firm and insurance coverage insurance policies excluded drivers age 65 or older. Some exclusions might be made for these coaching different drivers or driving domestically, per the grievance.
Round March 2025, Gamer Logistics “obtained new legal responsibility insurance coverage protection from a unique insurance coverage provider that gives protection for Defendant’s drivers who’re age 65 and older, topic to the next situations: ‘Drivers Age 65 and over should present a legitimate Lengthy Type Bodily to the insurance coverage provider for evaluate and attainable acceptance,’” in keeping with the grievance.
However such medical screening can be discriminatory, the EEOC stated.
The EEOC grievance was filed Sept. 29 earlier than the Oct. 1 U.S. authorities shutdown started. Nevertheless it was placed on maintain Oct. 2 till after the federal funding deadlock ends.
