The Sacramento office of a private protection firm is accused in a lawsuit filed today of discriminating against older males by favoring younger females for armed security positions.
The suit, filed by attorneys with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleges that, in February 2008, Trinity Protection Services' Sacramento office discharged four men and three women because of their scores on an arms re-qualification shoot.
"While the men were told to wait six months before taking the re-qualification test again, the women were called approximately a month later and invited to come in and re-qualify," according to an EEOC release. The action violated federal law prohibiting age and gender discrimination, the release said.