A finance executive has won an age discrimination claim after her younger boss told her “Calm down.. don’t let the hormones get out of control.” Louise McCabe was 55 when tech CEO Jack Williams made the remark during a 'heated exchange' at a company meeting, an employment tribunal heard.
The 29 year old entrepreneur viewed older people as 'not familiar' with the IT business and regarded finance director Mrs McCabe as 'a menopausal woman', a judge found. And after she raised a series of concerns about how staff at the e-commerce firm he founded were being treated, he stripped her of her role as a company director and eventually fired her.
Mrs McCabe - now 57 - is now in line for compensation after successfully suing for age discrimination and unfair dismissal. The tribunal heard that the experienced finance expert - who runs her own accountancy company - was a founding director and shareholder at the firm Selazar in 2014.
