Insubordinate behavior trumps potentially discriminatory comments made about an employee’s age, even if such comments include being called “an old prunella” and “an old bag of bones,” a federal judge determined in a Dec. 3 decision.
U.S. District Judge Victor Bolden found that while comments about an employee’s age can be a trigger for an age discrimination lawsuit, those comments only carry credence when evidence shows that age was the driving reason and motivation for the firing of an employee.
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