Iwankow v. Mobil Corp.

OPINION OF THE COURT

David B. Saxe, J.

The issue I must decide concerns the extraterritorial reach of the antidiscrimination laws of New York (Executive Law § 290 et seq.).

Plaintiff, a former employee of the defendant corporation, brings this action to redress alleged age discrimination. While a citizen of Canada and a resident of London, plaintiff was *729employed by defendant Mobil Overseas Services, Inc., and was assigned to various locations in the United States, Venezuela, Norway and England, from 1958 to 1986. Plaintiff contends that his position was terminated pursuant to a decision of…