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64-year-old Florida tech worker filed an age-discrimination lawsuit against
Google GOOGL +1.51% on Wednesday, claiming the company passed on him after a
job interview because of his age.
Robert
Heath says in his complaint filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif.,
that Google unfairly dismissed his application for a software engineering job
in 2011 when he was 60 years old, despite his work experience at IBM IBM +2.95%,
Compaq, and General Dynamics GD -0.68%. The lawsuit says Google based its
decision not to hire Heath on a brief phone interview, despite telling him in
an email that the company was “embarking on its largest recruiting / hiring
campaign in its history,” and “you would be a great candidate to come work at
Google.”
Heath,
represented by law firm Kotchen & Low, is seeking a class-action case on
behalf of job applicants 40 and older who were not hired by the Internet search
company. “There are very qualified older tech workers who are out of work,”
Heath said Thursday. “We had to do something about it.”
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