The EEOC announced that it was filing a lawsuit against Enterprise Leasing of Florida for age discrimination
The highlights:
- Enterprise Florida manages Enterprise, National and Alamo
- Enterprise has a well-documented history of discrimination 🤮
- The lawsuit is the latest in a series of discrimination complaints against the company since 2000 by the federal government.
- In August 2019, Enterprise Florida employed 486 management trainees but only 11 (2.3%) were 40+. 👉 About 49.3% of the US population is over 40.
- Of 332 management trainees employed in October 2020, only 6 (1.8%) were over 40.
- In 2002, the Florida branch settled an EEOC lawsuit filed in 2000 on behalf of a Black worker who claimed the company refused to promote him because of his race.
- In 2019, Enterprise Rent-A-Car of Baltimore was ordered to pay $6.6 million in back wages and benefits to resolve a Department of Labor charge that 2,336 Black candidates were passed over for the company’s management-trainee program between 2007 and 2018.
- In 2015, the company’s Los Angeles branch agreed to pay $425,000 to settle an EEOC lawsuit charging that the company failed to hire anyone over 40 between 2008 and 20
Your Gray Matter was formed to fight age discrimination in the marketing, advertising and creative industries. We stand firmly against ANY kind of discrimination, be it gender, racial, sexual preferences and, naturally age.
