Employees from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in the U.S. say they were discriminated against because of their age, according to lawyers representing the workers in a lawsuit. The latest round of performance evaluations from the company led to employees over the age of 55 being unfairly treated, alleges Michigan-based civil rights law firm, Akeel and Valentine, PLC. The firm filed a class-action …
IMDb has sued California’s Attorney General (and soon to be U.S. senator) Kamala Harris in an effort to overturn a new law that requires the company’s IMDb Pro to remove the ages of actors and others listed on the site if asked by them to do so. Related State Assembly Bill No. 1687 was narrowly crafted to apply only to “commercial online entertainment employment providers” that charge a …
A former employee of Stamford-based Gerald Metals filed last week an age and gender discrimination lawsuit against the company, in a case that also represents one of the first to invoke the state’s anti-pay secrecy law.
Filed in U.S. District Court in Connecticut, the lawsuit alleges that the company’s treatment of Roxanne Khazarian , 61, reflected a culture of …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP are facing a potential class action lawsuit brought earlier this month by four former employees. The companies engaged in widespread age discrimination during a restructuring of the legacy computer and printer manufacturer, according to their complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. HP from 2012 to 2015 made a series of discriminatory …
In a complaint filed Aug. 18 in U.S. District Court in San Jose, CA., four former employees of the company allege that beginning in 2012, HP’s goal “was to make the company younger.” As such, it targeted older workers for termination and then systematically replaced them with younger employees, according to the complaint filed and reported on by the San Jose Mercury News and other outlets. The …
Four ex-employees of Hewlett Packard are suing for age discrimination, claiming they were purged unfairly as part of a major restructuring involving tens of thousands of layoffs. The proposed class-action suit, filed in …
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating complaints of age discrimination by Google, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court. Cheryl Fillekes, a systems engineer who interviewed with but was not hired by Google when she was 47, made reference to the EEOC investigation in …
An age-discrimination lawsuit filed by two people who interviewed unsuccessfully for jobs at Google could expand to encompass other individuals if a motion filed this week is successful. The motion for conditional certification of collective action status was filed in a San Jose federal court Wednesday. Computerworld reports that the motion, which is similar to a class action, aims to include …
A lawsuit accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of violating U.S. discrimination law by hiring a “stunningly low” number of people over the age of 40 to maintain a youthful culture has been filed in San Francisco. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court, said the London-based accounting company does virtually all of its recruiting for entry-level jobs on college campuses to stock its …
For years, the NFL has avoided saying whether football was related to CTE and deferred to the medical community’s findings on the matter. So why the change now? What is CTE?