A lawyer known for battling tech giants over the treatment ofworkers has set her sights on International Business MachinesCorp.
Shannon Liss-Riordan on Monday filed a class-action lawsuit infederal court in Manhattan on behalf of three former IBM employeeswho say the tech giant discriminated against them based on theirage when it fired them. Liss-Riordan, a partner at Lichten &Liss-Riordan in Boston, has represented workers against Amazon,Uber, and Google and has styled her firm as the premier championfor employees left behind by powerful tech companies.
“Over the last several years, IBM has been in the process ofsystematically laying off older employees in order to build ayounger workforce,” the former employees claim in the suit, whichdraws heavily on a ProPublica report published in March that saidthe company has fired more than 20,000 employees older than 40 inthe last six years.
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