Workers Claim IBM Stopped Releasing Comparator Information During Layoffs

Mealey's (April 4, 2019, 11:54 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) violated the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA) when it stopped providing comparator information to employees being laid off and started requiring laid off workers to waive their right under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) to bring collective age bias claims in any forum, four employees terminated in May 2016 allege in their March 27 complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Steven Estle, et al. v. International Business Machines Corporation, No. 19-2729, S.D. N.Y.)....