By Kelly Heyboer and Ted Sherman/The Star-Ledger
NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University, which continues to deal with the fallout from allegations its new athletic director was the target of separate sex discrimination lawsuits, is facing its own legal headaches involving four former campus employees who said they were pushed out because of their age.
The lawsuit, filed in January, charges that Rutgers and Gregory Jackson, recently named as university president Robert Barchi’s chief of staff, bullied and intimidated four subordinates — some of whom were near retirement age.
At the time, Jackson was associate vice president for undergraduate academic affairs.
The lawsuit was filed by Dorothy Kerr, 59, and her husband Mark Kerr, 57, of Edison; Chrystal McArthur, 63, of Piscataway; and Richard White, 62, of Madison, who worked in the university’s career services office.
According to the complaint, filed in Superior Court in Middlesex County, the four said Jackson made no secret of his desire to force out those he considered too old for the job — isolating or demoting a number of employees. The four charged Jackson rewrote performance reviews to reflect poorly on them.
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