Reeves Vs Sanderson Plumbing

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In this case the respondent Sanderson Plumbing Products Inc. and plaintiff Roger Reeves battle in court in a age discrimination case. The plaintiff Roger Reeves claims he was dismissed from his employment because of his age and Sanderson Plumbing was in violation of The Age Discrimination Employment Act. Roger Reeves is a fifty-seven year old man who began working for Sanderson Plumbing Products Inc. in 1955 at the age of eighteen. Sanderson plumbing is a company involved in the manufacturing of toilet seats and covers. Roger Reeves worked as a supervisor, overseeing specifically the regular line in a department in the company known as the Hinge Room. The Hinge Room had another line known as the special line which was supervised by thirty-five year old Joe Oswalt. Russell Caldwell at age forty-five managed the department and supervised both Roger Reeves and Joe Oswalt. Sanderson plumbing production and maintenance employees were represented by a union. Attendance was a specific employment regulation agreed with in the unions contract with the employees. According to this agreement with the union and Sanderson employees, an employee who was absent from their work in excess of their scheduled hours in a month or was late twice in a month, was subject to disciplinary action. Reeves responsibilities as a supervisor was tracking the number of hours worked by each of the employees under his supervision on a daily, monthly and yearly basis. Oswalt as the other supervisor over the Hinge Room, also reviewed all monthly time sheet reports. Reeves and Oswalt both disciplined tardy or absent union employees Reeves and Oswalt revised the records and turned in weekly time sheets that listed all the hours worked by the employees working under their supervision to Russell Caldwell, who would reviewed the records and send them to get processed. Powe Chesnut, the

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