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Employment — age discrimination

By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF//December 4, 2013//

Employment — age discrimination

By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF//December 4, 2013//

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United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit

Civil

Employment — age discrimination

Where a professor accepted paid leave in exchange for retiring, and then decided he did not want to retire, his termination was not age discrimination.

“The ADEA entitles employees to continue working as long as they can perform the job satisfactorily, but it allows them to trade this right for something they value more, such as retirement packages. Northwestern did not terminate Ortony’s appointment; instead it bought out his tenure by promising him five years’ pay for three years’ work, an offer that Ortony accepted in 2007—and the fact that he had changed his mind by 2011 does not make the 2007 contract any the less binding.”

Affirmed.

12-3897 Ortony v. Northwestern University

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Marovich, J., Easterbrook, J.

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