Allstate Sued For Age Bias By EEOC

NU Online News Service, Oct. 8, 4:21 p.m. EDT?The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a class employment age bias lawsuit against Allstate Insurance Company yesterday for implementing a one-year hiring moratorium that unfairly impacted older agents.[@@]

In its lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in St. Louis, the federal agency alleges that in 2000 Allstate adopted a hiring moratorium for one year?or while severance benefits were being received?for all its 6,200 employee-sales agents dismissed by its reorganization process.

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