Ex-IBM Workers’ Age-Based Firing Claims Survive Dismissal Bid

Former IBM Corp. workers who say the company replaced them with Millennial employees properly exhausted their administrative remedies, allowing their age bias claims to move forward, a federal judge said.

The group of more than a dozen workers plausibly alleged that they met administrative exhaustion requirements by piggybacking on the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission charge another fired employee filed before pursuing arbitration, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said Wednesday.

The case is part of a wave of Age Discrimination in Employment Act litigation against IBM following terminations that allegedly targeted older workers. The US ...