Two IBM employees – age 66 and 62 – who work in human resources have sued the tech giant, alleging age discrimination and an increasing reliance on artificial intelligence to perform some HR tasks.
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IBM has reached a settlement with eight former workers who had sued the tech giant in an age discrimination case.
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Former IBMers who are suing IBM over alleged age discrmination lost a round in their ongoing legal fight Thursday when a federal judge in New York toss a consolidated move seeking to combine more than 20 suits, according to Law360 and Reuters.
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Documents released as part of an age discrimination suit against IBM disclose that executives called older workers “dinobabies” who wanted to turn them into an “extinct species.”
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A three-judge panel has made a ruling in a case filed against IBM.
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There’s no letup in the legal battle between hundreds of employees who allege age discrimination and tech giant IBM. A lawyer for some of the former IBM workers says they want more IBM documents she calls “shockingly incriminating” unsealed for review and are seeking declaratory judgment in their favor; IBM wants judgment in its favor.
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Age is a protected class under equal employment law. Still, ageism is rampant in modern business. In fact, according to Propublica, a full 56% of workers who are 50+ have been pushed out of their jobs before they were ready to retire because of age-related bias, typically disguised as performance-related concerns. Here’s how to fight this trend.
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IBM operates one of its largest corporate campuses in RTP and employs several thousand people across North Carolina.
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Well-known employment lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan is currently representing about 150 former IBM employees who are claiming they lost their jobs because of age discrimination. That includes Henry Gerrits, 68, from Cary. He worked at IBM from 1985 through June of 2018, according to the lawsuit. He was told he was being laid off on March 29 of last year.
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