By: STACY LANGLEY
BAY CITY — A Bad Axe man has filed a wrongful termination suit against a local car dealership.
According to court records from U.S. District Court in Bay City, Patrick Gottschalk, 60, of Bad Axe, alleges the dealership, George Ordus Ford-Mercury in Bad Axe, violated state and federal age discrimination laws.
As a result of Gottschalk’s termination on Jan. 20, 2009 from the dealership, Gottschalk is seeking that the court award him more than $75,000 in damages to fully compensate him for all of his economic and non-economic damages that were a result of the dealership’s “wrongful actions,” court documents state.
Gottschalk was hired by the dealership in 1976 and worked as the dealership’s service manager from 1977 until he was dismissed.
Court documents also show Gottschalk alleges his job performance was satisfactory, and that in an April advertisement mailed to customers by the dealership, he was listed as the service manager after he had been terminated. Gottschalk claims he did not give the dealership permission to use his name in the ads.
Gottschalk is represented by Saginaw attorney Victor J. Mastromarco Jr.
Ordus Ford is being represented by attorney Suzanne P. Bartos of the law firm Plunkett and Cooney. Bartos could not be reached for comment.
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