SCOTUS Skips Ex-IBM Workers’ Bid to Revive Age Bias Claims (1)

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to wade into a dispute between IBM Corp. and a group of older former employees who say their severance agreements required them to pursue age bias claims in arbitration, yet resulted in those being dismissed as untimely.

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s Aug. 4 ruling wrongly held that the “piggybacking” or single-filing rule doesn’t apply in arbitration, the 29 ex-IBMers said.

If allowed to stand, the ruling will also adversely affect hundreds of other former IBM employees in the same boat they’re in and “countless employees” generally, who “will unquestionably ...