Social Worker Seeks Resolution on Age-Discrimination Case

august 16, 2002  12:25 pm
Social Worker Seeks Resolution on Age-Discrimination Case
After 27 years at Mass General, social worker Hope Cranska was abruptly laid off. The hospital calls it a simple case of downsizing, but evidence points to another explanation: age discrimination. Cranska's lawsuit against the hospital still hasn't been resolved although a jury awarded her $631,000 in damages in 1999, Kristen Lombardi writes in the Boston Phoenix. Cranska's case epitomizes "the potential injustices faced by outspoken older employees in bottom-line American corporate culture," Lombardi writes.