Four former employees are suing IBM, alleging it targeted older workers for layoffs, challenging the arbitration agreement they were given.
One lawyer representing the former employees, Joe Sellers from law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, tells Business Insider that IBM's statement is a bit of red herring. Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll is a well-known class-action law firm that's won hundreds of millions of dollars against the likes of Apple, Caterpillar, Citigroup, Mercedes Benz, BP, Bristol-Myers Squibb andSellers says that this lawsuit is not attempting to get the court to rule out arbitration agreements.
"The only issue presented to the court is whether or not to enforce the waiver [to sue collectively]," he said.. That age discrimination lawsuit was filed by people who didn't sign a waiver that prevented them from suing collectively in exchange for severance, he said. "Our position is that the waivers that people signed — some people only got a month's payment, others got more than a month's payment — are unenforceable. So individuals can keep whatever they got paid and join this lawsuit," he says.
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