Toni Bone v. G4S Youth Services

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• holding that supervisors’ reactions to comments did not constitute direct evidence of age discrimination where comments were made six months prior to plaintiffs discharge and were unconnected to the discharge decision
• holding that allegedly “ageist” and “racist” comments made “six months before [defendant] decided to discharge [plaintiff]” were “stray remarks” “unrelated to the decisional process” and were, therefore, not direct evidence of discrimination
• noting that, under the McDonnel-Douglas framework, substantial shifts in an employer’s proffered non-discriminatory explanation for its actions may suggest that the explanation is pretextual
• concluding a dispute about whether the employee lied to supervisors was not a -9- genuine issue of fact that precluded summary judgment on the discrimination claim
• stating that comparators must be “similarly situated in all relevant respects”
• determining whether employees are similarly situated at the pretext stage “is a rigorous” test, and comparators must have engaged in “the same conduct without any mitigating or distinguishing circumstances.”

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