IBM Older Workers Sue Alleging Ageist ‘Fire-and-Hire’ Scheme (1)

Fifteen former IBM employees who say their careers were cut short because they were 40 or older under the “multi-faceted ‘fire-and-hire’ scheme” the technology giant implemented to make its workforce younger sued in federal court in Texas.

Nancy Kinney and the 14 other workers, some of whom had been with International Business Machines Corp. for 30 or more years, are the latest to lob age discrimination allegations against the company stemming from its alleged push to include older workers in rolling layoffs while simultaneously hiring recent college graduates “en masse.”

The complaint filed Sept. 18 in the U.S. District Court ...