IBM Settles With Eight Workers to End Age Discrimination Lawsuit

International Business Machines Corp. settled with eight former employees a lawsuit alleging it used a multi-pronged “fire-and-hire scheme” to lay off them and other employees who were 40 or older and replace them with younger workers.

The US District Court for the Western District of Texas, in an order Monday, dismissed with prejudice age discrimination claims by Charles Townlsey, Michael Sauro, Walter Noffsinger, Rosa Davidson, Michael Kelly, Titon Hoque, Janet Gelphman, and Thanh Do. They were the last remaining plaintiffs in a September 2020 lawsuit that at one point included eight other named plaintiffs.

IBM and the eight workers had ...