Retired civil servant awarded $25,000 for 'reckless' age discrimination

A federal civil servant has been awarded $25,000 for age discrimination because her manager presumed she might soon retire  — she was 62 — and denied her the chance to take part in a retirement incentive program. 
Diane Legros, a policy analyst, left the government in 2016 at the age of 66 without ever benefiting from the program, known as “alternation.” The program was introduced after the government of then-prime minister Stephen Harper launched a pl