Company settles age discrimination lawsuit … again
These days, large scale layoffs or reductions in force are commonplace. But when the people being laid off all seem to belong to the same group, it tends to draw the attention of the feds.
That’s what happened to 3M Co. recently, when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed an age-discrimination lawsuit against the company.
According to an EEOC lawsuit, 3M Co. allegedly laid off many highly paid older workers in an effort to cut costs and denied older employees leadership training. The company was also accused of cutting employees in salaried positions – up to the director level.
While 3M denies the allegations, the company has to settle the suit for $3 million, and it will also conduct training on preventing age bias and set up a review process for termination decisions.
It’s worth noting that this is the third age-discrimination lawsuit 3M has settled this year.
- Share on
Free Training & Resources
White Papers
Provided by Anaplan
Further Reading
Not every sign-on bonus belongs in the overtime calculation – and a recent federal case out of Virginia shows why. A fired employee fi...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024-25 term opened this week – and several employment issues are already on the docket. Here are six...
It’s a wildly astronomical number, and we’re not trying to scare anyone – but a recent case from New Jersey shows that employee miscl...
A California carwash has agreed to a $1.2M settlement to resolve wage theft allegations, according to the California Labor Commissioner’s...
Misclassification risk becomes a financial problem as soon as regulators decide contractor oversight looks like employee management. Case i...
A newly filed FLSA misclassification lawsuit in Massachusetts could have financial implications for FedEx, as it accuses the package delive...
