The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 21, Problem 5BCP
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Case s ummary : Person P was a sales professional in a company S. After the introduction of new expectation guidelines, the performance of P was reviewed as negative for 2 years consequently. Due to this reason P was terminated by S along with many other young professionals.
To find: Discrimination on the basis of age by S.
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