Stack Bros. Mechanical Contractors of Superior, Wisconsin, a major heating and plumbing contractor in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, will pay $140,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).According to EEOC’s suit, Stack Bros. discriminated against Randy Virta and Karen Kolodzeske by firing them when they turned 62 in 2014. Stack Bros. also retaliated against Kolodzeske for resisting its plans to fire her, EEOC alleged.Julianne Bowman, director of the EEOC’s Chicago District, which includes Wisconsin, said the agency’s pre-lawsuit investigation revealed that both Virta and Kolodzeske
