Jeff Bezos’ Company Blue Origin Sued for Allegedly Discriminating Against Older Workers

Two people have sued Blue Origin over the past year claiming the company discriminates against older workers, according to a recent report from TechCrunch.

Last September, a former aerospace software engineer at Blue Origin, Cristian Bureriu, filed a lawsuit against Jeff Bezos’ rocket company that claimed he had been told by his supervisor to seek out younger candidates to hire because “younger guys are more coachable,” according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that was viewed by Insider.

Bureriu said in his complaint that during the over three years he worked at Blue Origin, the company “forced out” about 20 employees who were over the age of 40 and replaced them with individuals who were in their 20s and 30s. The engineer alleged that he faced harassment and retaliation and was wrongfully terminated after he reported the issue to human resources, as well as took a medical leave of absence and requested special accommodations to continue working from home instead of going into Blue Origin’s Kent, Washington facility, the complaint said.

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