Glass sues Intel

AN EMPLOYMENT case started against Intel in an Arizona court alleging the corporation has breached disability and age discrimination laws.

Kevin Glass said he was employed by Intel as a senior staff engineer and was off sick for 10 months. When he returned, the division he worked in no longer existed and so he was forced to apply for other jobs inside Intel.

Glass claimed he applied for around 40 jobs, most of them similar to the jobs he’d been doing. He said that at interview he was made to answer engineering problems from memory which he claimed he answered correctly. He claimed often the interviewers didn’t know the answers themselves.

But when he reported to a manager at Folsom he claimed that a new manager “initiated and prosecuted a ‘whisper campaign’” against him.

When he received an email threatening him with the sack, he took action against Intel on the grounds of breaching the Age Discrimination and the Americans with Disabilities Acts. µ