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Boston Edison pays $2.25m in age-bias case Settlement ends suit filed after 1988 layoff
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Boston Edison Co. will pay $2.25 million to 34 former employees
who charged the utility with age discrimination during a 1988 layoff,
which an executive was quoted as saying was designed to "get rid of
the older people."
The settlement, filed Tuesday in US District Court in Boston, puts
to rest charges brought in a 1991 lawsuit filed by the federal Equal
Opportunity Employment Commission on the employees' behalf.
The agreement resolves yet another EEOC action in the agency's
increasingly public response to charges of discrimination and
harassment in workplaces around the country -- from the ...
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Boston Edison improves software development. (Boston Edison Co. uses LBMS Inc.'s Process Engineer process management software) (Cover Story)
; ...of MIS. One of these corporations is Boston Edison Co., a $1.5 billion, Boston-based utility...improve its software development process, Boston Edison commissioned help from Andersen Consulting...manager of the Applications Division of Boston Edison's Information Technology ...
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TWO TOWNS BATTLE BOSTON EDISON WELLESLEY AND CONCORD PRESS SUIT OVER 'SQUEEZE'
; ...US Supreme Court to decide whether Boston Edison overcharges the towns for electrical...In the lawsuit, the towns argue that Boston Edison engaged in a business maneuver known...surrounding Concord and Wellesley, Boston Edison owns the distribution systems and sells...
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Needham neighbors rip Boston Edison over tree cutting
; ...the cherry picker Jan. 24 was from Boston Edison, and he was there -- and fully within...Cuddemi and his neighbors do not dispute Boston Edison's easement -- dating to 1919 -- that...the CEO of a corporation the size of Boston Edison would be willing to spring for $8.30...
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State Raps Boston Edison on Cable Deal.
; Boston Edison has flagrantly violated the terms under...investigation into the activities of Boston Edison's nonutility, wholly owned subsidiary...Bureau, wrote the document. In 1993, Boston Edison petitioned the state Department of...
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Solar, wind units seen as boon to ratepayers Boston Edison says methods too costly
; Boston Edison and its ratepayers could save $50 million...feasible for as much as 31 percent of Boston Edison's electricity to be supplied by such...Westwood and Hopkinton, the report says. Boston Edison disputes the study's conclusions. The...
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Cablevision Moves Vs. Boston Edison.
; ...optic network built by an affiliate of Boston Edison. Cablevision claimed that the electric...Cablevision is asking the agency to force Boston Edison to refund $60 million to its customers...utility receives from RCN for using it Boston Edison is a major RCN stockholder. In its...
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Boston Edison hears resident demands
; Bay State Banner 02-20-1997 Boston Edison hears resident demands. Jeremy Pawloski...Park in Roxbury want compensation from Boston Edison for the 25 outages that have beset...been a total misreading on the part of Boston Edison as to the level of seriousness that...
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Plymouth objects to Boston Edison rates
; Boston Edison's collection of "transition costs...nuclear generating facility, owned by Boston Edison. The town receives $15 million in taxes...their power generation facilities. Boston Edison has already sold its nonnuclear generating...
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HOLYOKE COMPLAINS ABOUT BOSTON EDISON
; ...Electric Department has accused Boston Edison Co. of violating its contract by...Commission, follows one filed by Boston Edison against the Holyoke power company last month. The Boston Edison complaint accused the Holyoke company...
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