In sworn testimony filed
recently as part of a class-action lawsuit against IBM, a former
executive says she was ordered not to comply with a federal agency’s
request that the company disclose the names of employees over 50 who’d
been laid off from her business unit.
Catherine A. Rodgers, a
vice president who was then IBM’s senior executive in Nevada, cited the
order among several practices she said prompted her to warn IBM
superiors the company was leaving itself open to allegations of age
discrimination. She claims she was fired in 2017 because of her
warnings.
Company spokesman
Edward Barbini labeled Rodgers’ claims related to potential age
discrimination “false,” adding that the reasons for her firing were
“wholly unrelated to her allegations.”
Rodgers’ affidavit was filed Jan. 17 as part of a lawsuit in federal district court in New York. The suit cites a March 2018 ProPublica story
that IBM engaged in a strategy designed to, in the words of one
internal company document, “correct seniority mix” by flouting or
outflanking U.S. anti-age discrimination laws to force out tens of
thousands of older workers in the five years through 2017 alone.
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Source: ProPublica
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