The restaurant chain Ruby Tuesday, Inc. is paying $575,000 to settle a federal age discrimination lawsuit over five locations in Pennsylvania and one in Ohio. The U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…had alleged that the company engaged in age discrimination against job applicants 40 years of age or older. As part of the settlement, the restaurant chain also agreed to implement new hiring and monitoring practices that would [give] workers who are 40 or older equal employment opportunities. Ruby Tuesday...strongly denied wrongdoing in the case…[T]he company has also agreed to evaluate the job performance of workers who have hiring authority at the six stores names in the suit. Their future compensation will be based, in part, on how successful they are in helping Ruby Tuesday meet its recruitment and hiring goals for people who are 40 or older.