Roland Maxwell and about 12 other people were let go by their Fort Wayne company. Maxwell doesn't buy the reasons the company gave him for letting him go, so it must be discrimination. But he's not taking any chances with claiming just one or two puny charges:
"I think it was my race—it could have been my age, too,” said Maxwell, who is 54.
In a discrimination complaint filed with the City of Fort Wayne Metropolitan Human Relations Commission, Maxwell made those charges and another saying:
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“Furthermore all the forklift drivers are supposed to rotate. Randy, Bill and Steve, all Caucasians, don't have to rotate. I was told they can't do the job because they are too slow. I believe that because they all go to the same church as Warehouse and Receiving Manager Scott Rottenbeck [who also is] Caucasian, they are protected by him.
So the company let him go because of his race, his age and his religion!
