Age discrimination - TDC followed failed IBM model and may lose lots of lawsuits?

Another case of this company being a follower and not a leader. Just like IBM, this place RIF so many competent workers via age discrimination (see recent stats and all other posts) under the guise of needing some skillset quickly to compete.

People were RIF, demoted, given career ending projects, and other hurdles behind the scene. It was so bad during the OR days, engineering was below critical mass and mgmt re-hired some that they like back. Also, a company wide directive in all hands meetings to value and cherish the "old timers" and not shun them. Basically, an admission of age discrimination w/o coming out and saying it.

This is so much like what IBM did and now paying for it.

"Back in 2018, IBM was in the headlines, accused of deliberately trying to get rid of older workers and replace them with younger Millennials. Two years later, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) concluded [PDF] that IBM's defense of its decisions – that was just a coincidence if its layoffs seemingly primarily targeted the over-40s – "does not withstand scrutiny" and that "there is reasonable cause to believe that [IBM] has discriminated against [employees] on the basis of age." - IBM battles to settle yet more age discrimination claims Tue 4 Oct 2022

"The documents showed communications between two executives, in which one “applauds the use of the disparaging term ‘dinobabies’” to describe the older IBM employees as part of a “plan to oust them from IBM’s workforce”. According to the court documents, “he describes his plan to ‘accelerate change by inviting the dinobabies (new species) to leave’ and make them an ‘extinct species‘”. - IBM settles ‘dinobabies’ age discrimination case (August 17, 2022)

So 'old timers' or 'dinobabies', it' s all the same age discrimination. Will some law firm and group of discriminated folks sue this place? there's so blatant age discrimination that TDC won't be able to stand scrutiny in court.

https://techmonitor.ai/leadership/workforce/ibm-dinobabies-age-discrimination-case

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/04/ibm_settles_more_discrimination_claims/

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Easy fella! Good for you. Your lawyer have served you, go celebrate.

Good that we made the right career choices. Your lawyer ain't hungry enough and did not interview a group to get pattern and details necessary for a class action like those at IBM.

Still milking this place right under the their noses. Now that 2022 is in the books, gonna collect my bonus and hang it up before the next round of layoffs cause they're he-l bent on getting rid all old timers and anyone that knows anything.

Many are sharing information but some seem to try to put a lid on it and even place blame. Wondering what's in it for them.

No one else fault buddy when it's blatant incompetence.
Either you are an outsider and not in the know or a troll and wishing for layoffs.
People are engaged in discussion and sharing data and articles that can't be disputed to help those that were wrong.
What's in it for you anyways to be pushing so hard to suppress discussions about class action lawsuit? Obviously a company troll trying to mislead folks.

“How about all the other folks that got screwed? Did your attorney have all the stats and the details of all the cases? If not, you´re not paying enough or not worth your attorney´s time.“

He had the demographics for that layoff from the company, and is an employment litigator. So I assume he knows more than me or you about what is actionable. I was 62, so he was careful.

As for paying attention, I managed to milk the company as long as I could and, knowing the layoff was probable, set up a new job that started right after my layoff. So I had six months full pay from TD plus my new salary. Paying great attention.

If you got screwed, YOU weren’t paying attention and made bad career planning decisions. Good luck!

Please come back and report the results of your age discrimination lawsuits, TINO guy. Next time read the writing on the wall and make better career decisions. Always someone else’s fault

"My attorney checked it out when I was laid off. Saw no basis for an age discrimination suit."

Good to know for your case. So you must be very content.

How about all the other folks that got screwed? Did your attorney have all the stats and the details of all the cases? If not, you´re not paying enough or not worth your attorney´s time.

"Been following TDC layoffs for over 5 years and age discrimination comes up every single time, get over it."

Hah, get over yourself.

Spoken like a heartless and soul less HR troll or a TINO sympatizer. There are many impacted. Let them be informed and vent if they want instead of the usual trying to suppress discussions.

Definitely uninformed and not among the people that did the work and got screwed. Earlier on in the transformation, the company was viewed as aging and needed to project a younger image. Layoffs were done to free up $$ to hire the young ones. There were stories of fully productive and critical engineers let go without their manager´s knowlege or consent because they were too old. As a result, many areas lacked experts and started the braindrain and the demise of a once great product and companz. The stats have been padded to mask the blatant age discrimination. If a real picture with all the stats are formed, it would not stand the scrutiny of the courts as IBM found out.

My attorney checked it out when I was laid off. Saw no basis for an age discrimination suit.

Been following TDC layoffs for over 5 years and age discrimination comes up every single time, get over it.

No known age discrimination suit on TDC currently.
Maybe some claims settled confidentially before it went to court.
As with IBM, maybe some individual cases may make it to court.
Need a hungry lawyer to research, review merit, recruit the class, and champion a class action suit so it's win win for lawyer and litigants. Only way it will happen. IMHO.

Could someone please post information about the lawsuit, and how to join it. Thank you

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