Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 26, 1986No. Civ. A. 83-5457, 84-4799PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
KATZ, District Judge.
In the trial of this case, I saw the human wreckage of older Westinghouse employees, let go after years of service to the Company. Because these employees were eligible for their retirement benefits, they were denied the severance pay to which younger workers were entitled. Those persons eligible for early retirement were also denied severance pay, and had to draw down their reduced pension benefits to survive.
This heartless corporate policy was justified by a variety of litigation ploys. These ranged from a belatedly invented corporate “policy” of providing a…
2Cases cited51 opinions
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3Cited by24 opinions
- 50 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1099, 51 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 39,295 Marcel Verbraeken, Cross-Appellant v. Westinghouse Electric Corp., Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1989
- Coventry v. United States Steel Corp.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1988
- Advanced Power Systems, Inc. v. Hi-Tech Systems, Inc.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1992
- EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee. v. J.M. HUBER CORPORATION, Defendant-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1991
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. American Express Publishing Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1988
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