Ax $lap vs. Aging Dept.

‘Bias & retaliation’

The City Department for the Aging not only discriminates against its own senior employees, it targets those who try to help them, according to a complaint.

Monica Parikh, who worked as the agency’s special counsel, says her bosses retaliated against her after she brought forward discrimination, harassment and retaliation complaints raised by two agency employees, one of whom was 83, according to papers filed with the city Commission on Human Rights.

Parikh (inset), who was fired in September, alleges that after relating the workers’ allegations to her supervisor last year, she was told — at the direction of Commissioner Donna Corrado — to never again speak to agency employees who raise such concerns.

“I questioned this directive as I believed it was contrary to citywide policy and a violation of law,” Parikh wrote in her complaint, a copy of which was obtained by The Post. In retaliation, Parikh alleges, Deputy Commissioner Caryn Resnick left her off “key communications necessary to perform my job” and even “mocked” her. Parikh worked for the agency for nine years and was making $134,636 a year.

An agency spokesman said: “The Department for the Aging doesn’t condone retaliation or discrimination of any kind and has a strong history of inclusion.”