Amazon, T-Mobile Settle Age Bias Lawsuit Over Social Media Ads

Terms of agreement between companies and Communications Workers of America aren’t disclosed in one-page court filing that indicates case is being voluntarily dismissed.

• NOTE: Amazon.com Inc. and T-Mobile US Inc. were named as defendants in a 2017 lawsuit by the Communications Workers of America among hundreds of companies nationwide that the union alleged have systematically deployed algorithms in hiring notices on Facebook Inc. to exclude job seekers over 40. Facebook wasn’t named as a defendant
• “The case has been settled with T-Mobile and Amazon,” Peter Romer-Friedman, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said by phone Wednesday, while declining to elaborate ...