Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth Thompson, Jr., J.), entered on or about April 21, 1999, which, in this employment discrimination action, granted plaintiffs motion to preclude defendant from offering evidence at trial with respect to certain matters unless it provided certain disclosure to plaintiff, unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to limit
Plaintiff has set forth claims sounding in both disparate treatment and disparate impact. Under either theory, a plaintiff may use statistical evidence to rebut an employer’s non-discriminatory explanation of its actions (see, Hollander v American Cyanamid Co., 895 F2d 80, 84). Although the motion court properly found that plaintiff was entitled to information respecting defendant’s termination of employees with 25 years of service, the court improvidently exercised its discretion in failing to impose a limit as to the number of years for which such disclosure must be made. Accordingly, the appealed order is modified to the extent of limiting defendant’s disclosure to employees terminated in the five years prior to plaintiff’s termination.
While, as the motion court found, plaintiff is entitled to disclosure of other charges filed against defendant (see, id.), the court erred in ordering disclosure of all discrimination charges against defendant for the years 1995 to 1997. The scope of defendant’s disclosure of discrimination complaints for 1995 through 1997 should be limited to complaints based on discrimination by reason of race or color. Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Nardelli, Ellerin, Lerner and Friedman, JJ.