Older Ex-HP Workers Get Class Certification in Age Bias Suit

A group of 40-and-older workers suing HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. for allegedly casting them aside for younger employees in a workforce refreshing pushed by former top executive Meg Whitman can pursue the suit as a collective action, the Northern District of California ruled.

The four older former employees leading the 2016 suit say the Hewlett-Packard Co. spinoffs shed thousands of employees who were age 40 or over during Whitman’s refreshing push and replaced them with recent college graduates and other millennials. Whitman hatched the discriminatory scheme, which violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, in 2012 while ...