5th Circuit: Sears Worker Fired For Coupon Use Failed To Prove Age Bias

Mealey's (November 24, 2015, 2:29 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A department store salesperson who set aside coupons to use later to entice customers to make purchases, in violation of his employer’s policy, failed to show that his termination after more than a dozen years of employment was due to age discrimination, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Nov. 19 (John Ng-A-Mann v. Sears, Roebuck & Company, No. 15-20083, 5th Cir.; 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 20242)....