IBM Workers Fail With Challenge to Age Bias Arbitration Deadline

IBM Corp. defeated a bid by former employees to invalidate severance agreements they signed that required them to arbitrate within a certain time period claims that they were pushed out because of their age.

The ruling Friday by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit addressed whether the “piggybacking” or single-filing rule applies to arbitration.

Under the rule, when one worker has filed a timely bias charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, other workers with claims arising out of the same or similar discriminatory mistreatment within the same time frame can join a lawsuit by the first ...