Submit a comprehensive answer in IRAC format to the following Employment Discrimination Hypothetical:

You have joined the General Counsel's office of Health Second Health System as paralegal. Its main office is in Sebastopol, California and it employs 100 full-time employees. Part of your job duties is to assist the General Counsel in answering legal questions from managers. Today you received the following inquiry:

Creative Engineering is the department responsible for keeping Health Second's website and supporting technology up and running. The head engineer calls you and tells you that Tim Turtle, an engineer who has been with the company for 5 years and is 54 years old, appears to be getting absent minded and slowing down. In fact, the head engineer says that he has been telling Turtle that he is working too slowly and is "absent-minded professor" Today, Turtle forgot to enter several key lines of code and caused the website to crash for 15 minutes.

The head engineer wants to fire him now!

What legal issues and/or causes of action might the manager and/or company face? What defenses might the company assert? What questions may you want to ask the manager to help make a better recommendation