![]() The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is investigating the complaint, declined to comment. Google declined to comment.įollow USA TODAY San Francisco Bureau Chief Jon Swartz on Twitter. According to the 25-page lawsuit, the firmware updates essentially act as malware by adding, deleting or altering the. At least one recent lawsuit also alleges the valley is biased toward younger workers in their 20s and 30s.Ĭheryl Fillekes, 47, a systems engineer who interviewed with Google but was not hired, is part of an age-discrimination lawsuit against the company in federal court in San Jose. has transmitted firmware updates to its printers that block customers from using third-party ink and toner cartridges and force them to buy more expensive HP-branded supplies. In Silicon Valley, where the workforces of major companies increasingly are under scrutiny for racial and gender diversity, ageism is a mounting concern. In a statement, HPE said the workforce reductions were based on legitimate factors unrelated to age. spokesman Tom Suiter said in a statement. “We are aware of the claims, deny them and plan to defend against them,” HP Inc. The 26-page complaint claims that in 2013, HP's human resources department issued written guidelines requiring 75% of outside hires be straight out of school or "early career" applicants. HP Inc. and HPE are defendants in the suit. ![]() ( HPQ) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( HPE), have eliminated more than 80,000 jobs since 2012. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company and the two companies that split from it in November, HP Inc. The plaintiffs - Donna Forsyth, 62, of Washington Sidney Staton, 54 of California Arun Vatturi, 52, of California and Dan Weiland, 63, of Texas - say they were laid off when HP instituted a Workplace Reduction Plan that allegedly targeted older workers after the computer services and printer maker announced 27,000 jobs cuts in 2012, according to the lawsuit. "HP has hired a disproportionately large number of new employees under the age of 40 to replace employees aged 40 and older who were terminated," the suit alleges. 18, claims the technology giant "made it a priority to transform itself from an 'old' company into a 'younger' operation." District Court in San Jose, Calif., on Aug. The proposed class-action suit, filed in U.S. SAN FRANCISCO - Four ex-employees of Hewlett Packard are suing for age discrimination, claiming they were purged unfairly as part of a major restructuring involving tens of thousands of layoffs. ![]()
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