Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

OPINION AND ORDER

DON J. YOUNG, Senior District Judge.

This action arises out of the closing of five warehouse operations of defendant, the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company [“A & P”]. Under the terms of collective bargaining agreements with the unions representing the employees at these warehouses, some, but not all, of the employees received severance pay upon termination of the operations. Plaintiff, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission [“EEOC”], claims that the 89 employees who did not receive severance pay were discriminated against because of their age, in violation of the…