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Ex-IBM Employees' Lawsuit Alleges Age Discrimination Ex-IBM Employees' Lawsuit Alleges Age Discrimination
Ex-ibm Employees' Lawsuit Alleges Age Discrimination Lawyers for four IBM employees who were laid off have filed a lawsuit alleging that the company failed to comply with federal laws that require companies to disclose the ages of people over the age of 40 who are fired. The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in New York City, further alleging that IBM has preventing workers from teaming up to challenge their firings. IBM officials have denied any wrongdoing. The tech giant - headquartered in Armonk  - failed to provide laid-off workers with age-specific demographic information about layoffs, the complaint alleges. IBM also alle…

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by Zak Failla
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New Lawsuit Links IBM’s ‘Millennial’ Reinvention To Age Bias New Lawsuit Links IBM’s ‘Millennial’ Reinvention To Age Bias
New Lawsuit Links IBM’s ‘Millennial’ Reinvention To Age Bias After another round of company-wide layoffs this spring, IBM is being sued in federal court for age discrimination, according to multiple reports.A lawsuit filed against the Armonk-based IBM by Jonathan Langley, 60, of Texas claims that in the international company's push to hire millennials and make money, the company let go of more experienced but costlier "gray-hairs." Millennials are defined as the generation born after 1980. According to this lawsuit, Langley was fired last June as director of sales in IBM’s Hybrid Cloud business unit, based out of Austin. According to a ProP…

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by Jon Craig