Question

Beginning in 1986, paul rangel was a sales professional for the pharmaceutical company sanofi aventis u.s. llc (s-a). rangel had satisfactory performance reviews until 2006, when s-a issued new "expectations" guidelines with sales call quotas and other standards that he failed to meet. after two years of negative performance reviews, rangel—who was then more than forty years old—was terminated as part of a nationwide reduction in force of all sales professionals who had not met the "expectations" guidelines, including younger workers. did s-a engage in age discrimination? the age discrimination in employment act (adea) is a law.

Answer 1

NO, S-A DID NOT ENGAGE IN AGE DISCRIMINATION.
Age discrimination refers to a situation whereby an employee is discriminated against because he or she is age forty years or more. In the question given above, Paul Rangel was not discriminated against because of his age. Although he is over forty, he failed to meet the set sales targets of his company for two solid years. Besides, he was not the only one that was sacked, other younger colleagues who did not meet their targets too were sacked.