April 01, 2024
A California federal judge placed the final stamp of approval on an $18 million settlement that ends an age discrimination suit alleging tech company HP Inc. unlawfully pushed out hundreds of older workers under the guise of a workforce reduction plan.
March 22, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for a California federal court's final approval of an $18 million settlement in an age discrimination class action against HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in the state.
October 26, 2023
A California federal judge gave the initial nod Thursday to an $18 million settlement agreement between a group of former employees and technology giants HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., a deal aiming to resolve claims that the company pushed out older workers.
October 20, 2023
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential initial approval of an $18 million settlement in an age discrimination proposed class and conditionally certified collective action against HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in the Golden State.
September 22, 2023
Former employees of HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. asked a California federal judge Thursday to greenlight an $18 million class and collective action settlement resolving claims that employees 40 and older were pushed out in favor of young hires.
April 14, 2021
A California federal judge said former workers who allege HP systematically pushed them out in favor of young hires can move forward with their collective action, saying employees over 40 who were let go in a "workforce restructuring initiative" had enough in common to proceed together.
October 16, 2020
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and HP Inc.'s latest efforts to trim a proposed class action accusing them of an ongoing scheme to push out older workers misses the mark, a California federal judge has ruled, finding claimants may "piggypack" on charges filed by laid-off workers who exhausted administrative remedies.
May 18, 2020
A California federal judge on Monday trimmed a proposed class action accusing HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. of pushing out older workers during a multiyear restructuring, but kept alive the workers' central claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
February 07, 2018
A California federal judge on Tuesday rejected HP Inc.'s bid to make a group of laid-off workers alleging age discrimination fight arbitration clauses in their severance agreements individually rather than together, saying a class waiver provision in their deals doesn't apply because they don't comprise a class.
November 15, 2016
HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. asked a California federal court Monday to toss claims in a proposed class action alleging age discrimination toward workers 40 and older as part of a workforce reduction plan, saying certain litigants lack standing to sue.