It is not enough for the employee simply to raise triable issues of fact concerning whether the employer's reasons for taking the adverse action were sound. In our judgment the fact an employee is the member of a protected class and has demonstrated triable issues concerning the appropriateness of the adverse action taken does not so readily demonstrate a discriminatory animus that it is alone sufficient to establish the fact of discrimination or alone sufficient to avoid summary judgment. Hersant's attempt to buttress his claim of age discrimination with more direct evidence is also unavailing. We agree with the trial court that to attribute Davis's claimed harassment and ill treatment of Dumont and Hersant and her inquiries concerning Dumont's hearing to age bias is simply speculation. The trial court acted correctly in granting Department's motion for summary judgment.
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