"Attention IBM'ers!
If IBM tags you for a Resource Action or layoff, do the following IMMEDIATELY...
Documentation is important. Log all calls and conversations. Make PDF copies of all emails, text messages, logs, etc. and send them to your home/personal email address.
Make a formal request in writing/email to IBM to provide you a report on the numbers and ages of the staff selected for the Resource Action (layoff) that affects you. Under the 1967 Age Discrimination Act and the 1980 Older Worker Benefit Protection IBM is legally required to provide you this information. Follow up regularly with your manager and HR person.
IBM will probably decline to provide you this information. They will probably not give you a written answer to your request. You may get a phone call.
File a formal complaint with the EEOC BEFORE you sign your Resource Action paperwork. It is better if you file the complaint several weeks, longer if possible before signing IBM's paperwork.
IBM's separation documents greatly limits your legal options and mandate all disputes go through an IBM hired arbitrator. If you believe you have been discriminated against IBM's refusal to provide the legally required data can be used as a basis to get the EEOC's help. It is therefore important you ask for the data, file the EEOC complaint, and then, later, sign the separation papers.
Life is definitely better outside of IBM."
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2024/09/18/ibm_job_cuts/