Moving Too Slow with Age Discrimination
A recent case, Stewart v. Nissan N. Am., Inc., No. 22-cv-4734, 2025 LX 472669 (N.D. Ill. Sep. 19, 2025) reminded that moving too slowly in filing a timely EEOC charge can reduce your claims and chances of success. If you want to press an age discrimination claim don’t hesitate too long. Otherwise, you may narrow your case. There are no exceptions to the time limit for uncertainty, fear, or age. Make sure you contact the EEOC with the complaint within 180* days of the first event involving discrimination if in Alabama and many other states. In Alabama there is no entity to hear your charge other than a court, so the time limit is 180 days rather than 300 days. This was an Illinois case so given state law the longer time frame is applied.