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101-Year-Old Disney Accused Of Age Discrimination & Retaliation In Fired 73-Year-Old Business Analyst’s Lawsuit


The optics are pretty lousy when a company run by a 73-year-old man cans a nearly 20-year employee as she hits the age of 73-years-old and then attempts to call it a retirement on paper. Yet, according to former longtime Disney Business Analyst Deborah Violante, that is exactly what happened to her at the Bob […]

The optics are pretty lousy when a company run by a 73-year-old man cans a nearly 20-year employee as she hits the age of 73-years-old and then attempts to call it a retirement on paper. “As Violante got older, she became subjected to a campaign of discrimination and harassment based on her age,” the 34-page document from employment law specialists Yadegar, Minoofar & Soleymani LLP goes on to claim. Specially, having been a much-rewarded employee expecting “voluntary retirement” at some point down the line, Violante’s legal action details how things started to spoil after she as one of the last members of her department brought back from the company’s pandemic furlough in 2020.

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