John R. Wastak v. Lehigh Valley Health Network

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a release was supported by adequate consideration under the OWBPA because it provided something “‘in addition’ to what [the plaintiff] was entitled to upon his termination—nothing”
• concluding that complainant’s “injury was complete and discovered when [his former employer] terminated his employment,” not months later when “he learned that he had been replaced by a younger employee”
• noting that \the law is clear that the existence of financial pressure to sign a waiver is insufficient to establish that it was executed involuntarily\
• finding that age discrimination claim accrued when plaintiff knew of his injury—discharge—and cause of that injury—his employer’s decision to terminate him—and rejecting argument that it accrued later when he first learned that he had been replaced by a younger worker
• explaining “that EEOC charges are distinct from typical employee claims against an employer in that their purpose is not to seek recovery from the employer but rather to inform the EEOC of possible discrimination” (internal quotations omitted)
• analyzing whether release was signed \knowingly or involuntarily\ under the OWBPA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).