Meta zielte bei Entlassungen auf ältere Arbeitnehmer ab, Klage des ehemaligen leitenden Direktors wegen Ansprüchen des Unternehmens
Meta targeted older workers in layoffs, lawsuit by former senior director for company claims
Meta zielte bei Entlassungen auf ältere Arbeitnehmer ab, Klage des ehemaligen leitenden Direktors wegen Ansprüchen des Unternehmens
Meta targeted older workers in layoffs, lawsuit by former senior director for company claims
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> The lawsuit highlights long-running claims that age discrimination is rampant in the Silicon Valley tech industry. In 2023, Silicon Valley tech icon HP and its spinoff Hewlett Packard Enterprise agreed to pay $18 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing them of of a long-running, company-wide purge of older workers.
> In 2019, Google agreed to pay $11 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming it denied jobs to hundreds of older workers between 2007 and 2013.
Pretty obvious tech companies are doing this, and when the consequences are settling lawsuits for far less money than they’d likely pay in salaries and other compensation if they kept the employees, it’ll just keep happening.
Long story short, sue those fuckers and get your bag.
I’m sure that any company doing mass downsizing does so by algorithm.
Sort by salary descending order.
Younger people are more willing to drink the kool aid, more willing to work longer hours, likely have less partner/family commitments – basically, their life can be work. It’s no different in ibanking, big law, or consulting.
It’s an unfortunate reality in the workforce. Unless you’re special, a company would rather not have to deal with the fact that you have kids and a pet and a divorce and some age-related sickness and ailing parents, all factors which increase with age. Women face similar discrimination because of the fact that they may have kids, or so have kids.
Companies have been doing this for 100 years.
The lawsuit never pays out more than a fraction of the money saved so they keep doing it.
My friend was let go by Cigna at 59 years of age after working for that company for 10 years.
I’m confused. This seems… normal? When the federal government was offering soft landings for retirement during the shutdown 15 years ago, I remember they offered based on age. I guess the difference is that was voluntary.
They all did the same shit: they get rid of older workers by roping in a few younger ones that they don’t wanna keep around anyway cause I don’t wanna pay the older ones that have lots of experience and put a lot of time to build up the company.
No company is your friend
Newer and younger hires will take low salary just to get into the companies
But not all are willing to put more hours in though unlike other comments here
In my current experience, they don’t have the same work commitment and knowledge as as senior employees but they get because of their lower pay
Older workers equal higher pay. Higher pay gets cut frequently.
Sue that goofy awkward fuckface!!!
I mean it makes sense – they’re the most expensive usually
They’ll simply throw money at DT and it will magically go away in a few months
That or they’ll receive a financially devastating fine of about $200
Amazon and AWS did the exact same thing.
Who said I could function either way? 😆
I was speaking to the dealing with public and with 99% of coworkers.