EEOC files age suit against allstate. (Late Breaking News).(U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed an age-discrimination suit against Allstate Corp.)(Brief Article)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, January, 2002 by Simone, Marcella De

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a suit against Allstate Corp., alleging it engaged in age-discrimination against its agents. The suit was filed just before the new year in the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. Talks between the company and the EEOC over complaints filed by Allstate agents had been ongoing for more than a year, but they ended without resolution last February.

The suit stems from the company's decision in 1999 to reorganize its 15,000-plus agency workforce into a single independent contractor program. The 6,400 employee agents affected by the re-organization were given the option of becoming independent contractors or being dismissed from the company with a severance package. A complaint filed by more than 300...

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