Glass sues Intel

A CASE started in an Arizona court with plaintiff Kevin Glass alleging discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress by Intel staff.

Glass said he was a unit manager at Intel's Santa Clara office in the microprocessor group. He took medical leave for a year between March 1999 to March 2000, because of exhaustion and depression "caused by working long hours without days off on a highly specialised project".

He was transferred to Phoenix in September 2002, and in April 2003 filed a charge of discrimination alleging retaliation, age discrimination and disability discrimination. During the course of that case, Glass said he filed a complaint for damages against Intel, and last November claimed he was told his former position "no longer exists".

He alleges that everyone apart from himself was deployed to a different work group and he attempted to find other jobs inside Intel. But Intel refused to re-hire him, he alleged.

He alleges that he was harassed by being told to drop the lawsuit or to suffer the consequences, and subsequently was given a corrective action plan which was designed to remove him from employment by being given impossible deadlines, and being unfairly evaluated.

Glass already has an existing court case with several of his original complaints struck out, and which is due to start in Phoenix next January. µ