OTHER NEWS - April 25, 1995

Age-Discrimination Finding Made Against AlliedSignal: Officials of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have concluded that AlliedSignal “engaged in a pattern of age discrimination” during 1993 at its aerospace plants in the Phoenix area. In a letter to the company, an EEOC official said evidence indicates that the company “targeted its older workers for layoff” and then launched “an aggressive corporate policy to recruit and hire new college graduates” and other younger workers. A spokesman for AlliedSignal Aerospace said the company will “defend itself vigorously” against the allegation, having concluded through an internal investigation that it did not break the law. Separately, a group of more than 100 workers laid off by AlliedSignal in Phoenix are expected to file an age-discrimination suit in Arizona today.