July 11, 2018
A California federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a putative age discrimination class action against Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and HP Inc., finding that the Palo Alto-based companies' former president's comments about hiring "lots of young people" were not enough to keep the case in the Golden State.
May 31, 2018
Hewlett-Packard told a California federal judge Thursday that a putative class action claiming the company discriminated against older employees should not be heard in the Golden State just because ex-CEO Meg Whitman allegedly made statements about wanting a younger workforce, comments the judge called a "smoking gun."