Here’s a succinct article in the AARP bulletin on the illegality of targeting older workers for layoffs. Apparently Seagate, the hard drive maker, was “pressuring older workers to retire and firing older workers who refused.”
They were also “transferring duties and jobs from older workers to younger replacements or hiring younger workers shortly before and after firing older workers.” Since in many cases the workers were top performers, I’m assuming they were doing this to save money.
They didn’t exactly get away with it. According to the article there will be a full trial, and of course, they’re denying they did anything wrong.
