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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

BDN: 18 Bath Iron Works employees file human rights complaints

Troy R. Bennett | BDN

Bath Iron Works' largest crane towers over the shipyard in Bath. Buy Photo

By Beth Brogan, BDN Staff

Posted Oct. 21, 2015, at 5:42 p.m.
Last modified Oct. 21, 2015, at 6:11 p.m.

BATH, Maine — Eighteen Bath Iron Works employees formally complained to the Maine Human Rights Commission that the shipyard violated their rights “individually and systematically due to a company-wide pattern of discrimination against older employees.”

Some of the complaints also allege that the shipyard discriminated against employees based on their disabilities and denied reasonable accommodation for disability as required by the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

A Maine Human Rights Commission investigator found reasonable grounds to support complaints filed by three men, preservation technicians Rodney Kates of Lewiston, Charles Dorr of Sidney and Joseph Page of South China.