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IBM is still refusing to turn over documents in a bombshell age-discrimination lawsuit that attorneys representing plaintiff Jonathan Langley believe will show Big Blue has deliberately and systematically shed older workers.
"IBM simply refuses to produce any of [the documents] in violation of the requirements of open and honest discovery," Langley's legal team said in a motion filed on Tuesday in a Texas court to compel IBM to cooperate.
The IT titan also sealed internal confidential files submitted by Langley to the court, though we were able to glimpse them before they were pulled from public view. More on that in a moment.
Langley, who joined Big Blue in 1993 and was worldwide program director and sales lead of IBM's Bluemix cloud service when he was laid off in 2017, claims the IT giant broke the US Age Discrimination in Employment Act when it let him go in pursuit of a multi-year campaign to de-age its workforce. For one thing, he was praised for his work and landed a $20,000 performance-linked bonus just two months before he was kicked out, leading him to accuse the biz of dropping him purely because he had turned 60.
Last month, IBM was accused by Langley's lawyers of attempting to derail the lawsuit by blocking discovery requests and narrowing its focus away from the claims of systematic discrimination.
In March 2018, ProPublica and Mother Jones reported that IBM for years has been implementing a layoff strategy that targeted older workers. According to the report, IBM is estimated to have rid itself of 20,000 workers age 40 or older between 2014 and 2018, representing about 60 per cent of job cuts since then.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @09:54AM (3 children)
FTFY.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 12 2019, @03:25PM (2 children)
Yes they've got those high taxes to pay for what they too called Medicare. You know: For All.
But in the US, most salaried employees and many hourly ones get employer-paid health insurance that actually costs quite a lot _more_ than those Canadian Medicare taxes. Those costs are passed on to consumers and to businesses in the form of higher prices for American-made products and services.
That so many other countries are Stealing Our Jerbs is due to those poor fuckers having no health care of any sort.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @04:33AM (1 child)
Just to get insurance cost me last year about 12,000 dollars. I finally got hired by someone it is now about 6k. It had a 6k deductible. I know some people who were paying 24k.
In 2000 that amount of insurance would have been the cadillac insurance plan (think 20 dollar co-pay no max). That ended in 2008. Sure I can keep my doctor. If I could afford it.
We threw more money on the money bon-fire of healthcare and somehow magically expected costs to go down. They didn't.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday January 14 2019, @12:39PM
This because many Sole Proprietors - such as myself - and Partners have Pre-Existing Conditions, as well as that most new jobs are created by small companies.
I at first planned to hire five Web Engineers out of an Indiegogo, but whatever my Neurological Disorder is leaves me unable to manage other coders. So instead, on Wednesday February 20th I'm launching a campaign to raise $60,000 - $40,000 to pay for very modest living expenses and $20,000 for Portland Custom Software Design. Here's a placeholder crowdfunding pitch - I'll write the whole thing later this morning:
(That's it's The Global Employer Index [soggy.jobs] and not The Global Computer Industry Index [soggy.jobs] is due to my plan to cover lots of other occupations; presently I've got just a start on Cafe Jobs.
The total of sixty grand would enable me to get off The Government Tit then live in a very modest way for one year. Were I to get a regular W2 job, my salary would be $120k - $140k but really I am _much_ happier living in quite a modest way.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]