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IBM Execs Face an Age Discrimination Lawsuit

Internal emails show IBM executives calling older workers “dinobabies” and discussing plans to make them “an extinct species,” according to a Friday filing in an ongoing age discrimination lawsuit against the company. 

The documents were submitted as evidence of IBM’s efforts “to oust older employees from its workforce,” and replace them with millennial workers, the plaintiff alleged. It’s the latest development in a legal battle that first began in 2018, when former employees sued IBM after the company fired tens of thousands of workers over 40-years-old. 

One high-ranking executive, whose name was redacted from the lawsuit, said IBM had a “dated maternal workforce.”

Read the source article at Business Insider

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