“The goal ….was to replace Plaintiffs and other senior employees with younger personnel. The victims were targeted because they were at or near the age of 60. The discriminatory scheme …
, ousted, forced into retirement or retaliated against 15 top older department staffers, including chiefs.
Gala was demoted to the “Chief Quartermaster” job title in the FDNY’s outfitting department and reassigned to Fort Totten, Queens — far from the department’s Metro Tech Center headquarters in downtown Brooklyn. “The goal ….was to replace Plaintiffs and other senior employees with younger personnel. The victims were targeted because they were at or near the age of 60. The discriminatory scheme left many victims in its wake, not just Plaintiffs.”
“Defendant Kavanagh then forced Director Hoffman to resign. After Director Hoffman threatened to sue, FDNY settled the matter out of court,” the complaint said. The complaint also says Kavanagh forced senior employees off medical leave, withheld or threatened to withhold earned or customary benefits from them, cut off their computer access, and “leaked false information about them to the press.”
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