Lydia M. Caylan claimed her employer did not renew her contract because “she was getting old.”
With her counsel Colin M. Thompson, Caylan is asking the federal court to render her judgment against World Corporation, which is doing business as Saipan World Resort, through compensatory damages in the form of front pay for future earnings and other benefits she lost as a result of the defendant’s unlawful age discrimination.
She is also asking for compensatory damages for back pay for past income and other benefits, for liquidated damages for defendant’s willful violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, for attorney’s fees and costs.
Further, the plaintiff is also asking for compensatory damages for pain and suffering, mental distress, humiliation, embarrassment and anxiety as a result of the defendant’s intentional infliction of emotional distress, for punitive damages and other relief the court deems proper.
In her complaint, the plaintiff said that she began working for the defendant as a house keeping cleaner May of 2005.
Her contract was renewed for 2006 and 2007 but on April 14, 2008, she was called to the office of the House keeping manager to give her a yearly evaluation.
Caylan said the manager told her that her performance was unsatisfactory and was asked to sign the evaluation.
She refused because she thought the evaluation was inaccurate and unfair.
She said the manager insisted so she signed the evaluation, thinking that her contract could not be renewed unless she signed it.
To her surprise, Caylan said the manager told her she won’t be renewed because “she was getting old and he did not want old people in his department.”
She later received a letter confirming her contract expired last May 20.
She said she was replaced by another housekeeping cleaner who was in her mid thirties.
On June 23, Caylan filed a complaint before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for disparate treatment under the ADEA and for intentional infliction of emotional distress. She received her notice of dismissal and right to sue letter from the EEOC on May 1.
Caylan said the defendant’s acts and conducts were “deliberate, intentional, malicious and outrages that they shock the conscience and go beyond all bounds of decency.”
