IBM Hit With New Class Lawsuit Over ‘Millennial’ Hiring Push (1)

IBM laid off, drove out, or fired 40-and-over workers across the country en masse as part of a push to remake its workforce and make room for young, “millennial” workers, a class lawsuit in Manhattan charges.

The systemic age discrimination is ongoing and began in approximately 2012 when International Business Machines Corp. decided to rebrand itself as “a leading company in the fields of cloud services, big data analytics, mobile, security and social media,” according to the suit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

More than 20,000 older workers nationwide have been ...