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US judge says X must face class action age bias claims over mass layoff
- hn1986 2y ago>A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X when Elon Musk acquired the company can sue for age discrimination as a class, exposing the company to millions of dollars in potential damages.
- Qem 2y ago> Plaintiff John Zeman, who worked in X's communications department when the company was called Twitter, sued in 2023. He said in his lawsuit that X laid off 60% of employees who were 50 or older and nearly three-quarters of those who were over 60, compared with 54% of employees younger than 50. "Plaintiff has shown beyond mere speculation that Twitter may have discriminated against older employees in the November 4, 2022 (mass layoff), which constitutes a single decision that affected all members of the proposed class," Illston wrote. Elon is turning Twitter in a textbook example on how to take over an successful company and run it into the ground. I wonder if to avoid such blatant discrimination, mass layoffs shouldn't require transparency reports on the demographics of those fired. In this case it appears the plaintiff had to do some sleuthing to gather data.
- hn1986 2y agoI wonder what the outcome of all these lawsuits end up being. There's gotta be over a dozen