April 28, 2021
The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to pay nearly $44 million to end a 16-year-old suit alleging it discriminated against nearly 700 older flight service specialists — a sum the workers' lawyers say is the federal government's largest age bias payout — under a deal filed Wednesday.
October 23, 2020
The Federal Aviation Administration has brokered a tentative deal to end a lawsuit filed in 2005 by hundreds of older former flight service controllers who said the agency's decision to eliminate their jobs stemmed from age bias.
March 28, 2018
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday reinstated claims from hundreds of flight service controllers who were dismissed from a long-running age discrimination suit against the U.S. Department of Transportation, saying new evidence suggests their former lawyers misled them about their rights and obligations in the litigation.