Employee may pursue bias case in RIF

Heather Bivens, the Associate Senior Vice President for Quality Assurance of a nonprofit provider of services to persons with disabilities, was let go when her male supervisor was told to cut $100,000 out of the department’s budget.  She was let go instead of a much younger man who had only a few years of work experience and was allegedly “over his head” in the job.  A federal District Court in New York has allowed her to challenge her termination on the basis of gender discrimination.