Wood

MEMORANDUM **

Deborah Wood (“Wood”) appeals the district court’s order granting summary judgment to her former employer, GCC Bend, LLC (“GCC”). Wood brought this action against GCC for: (1) age discrimination and retaliation for opposition to age discrimination, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”), 29 U.S.C. § 621 , et seq.; (2) age discrimination and retaliation for opposition to age discrimination, in violation of Or.Rev.Stat. § 659A.030; and (3) common law wrongful constructive discharge, see McGanty v. Staudenraus, 321 Or. 532, 557 , 901 P.2d 841, 856-57 (1995).

Wood worked as a senior advertising sales person at GCC’s radio stations. Wood asserts that after she began to challenge GCC owner Jim Gross’s efforts to hire a “younger, attractive, aggressive” sales force, she was demoted and subjected to such an embarrassing and stressful work environment such that she had no choice but to resign (ie., she was “constructively discharged”). 1

The district court granted GCC’s motion for summary judgment to the extent Wood’s claims were premised on both federal and state law constructive discharge.

In granting summary judgment to GCC on Wood’s federal…