January 06, 2021
Amazon.com and T-Mobile have reached a settlement to end an age bias lawsuit leveled by job seekers who say Facebook ads for open positions targeted younger workers at the expense of older ones.
August 25, 2020
A group of would-be applicants suing Amazon and T-Mobile over Facebook job ads are fighting to keep their age bias suit alive, arguing that it's obvious the ads targeted younger workers at the expense of older ones.
July 13, 2020
A lawsuit claiming Amazon and T-Mobile discriminated against a class of older applicants by targeting younger workers in Facebook job ads "rests on an implausible series of assumptions," the businesses have told a California federal court in a bid to toss the latest version of the novel suit.
June 11, 2020
Older job seekers accusing Amazon and T-Mobile of discriminating against them by targeting Facebook job ads to younger users have taken another stab at making their case, attempting to shore up allegations that a California federal judge dismissed as "vague and conclusory" in March.
March 16, 2020
A California federal judge has tossed a proposed class action alleging Amazon and T-Mobile violated federal discrimination laws by blocking older workers from seeing their job ads on Facebook, but left the job seekers a blueprint for strengthening their claims.
January 30, 2020
Amazon urged a California federal judge Thursday to toss a proposed class action alleging it violated discrimination laws by blocking older workers from seeing its job ads on Facebook, arguing that thousands of Golden State employers could be sued by anyone with a "general grievance" if the case proceeds.
September 25, 2019
A labor union suing Amazon and T-Mobile for so-called digital bias said Tuesday that their case is bolstered by a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission finding that Capital One may have violated federal discrimination law by blocking older workers from seeing Facebook job advertisements.
January 16, 2019
Amazon.com Inc. further urged a California federal court Wednesday to let it escape a suit accusing it of illegally blocking a proposed nationwide class of older workers from seeing Facebook job ads, arguing both that the suit's claims fall short and that the court doesn't have jurisdiction to hear them.
December 04, 2018
Amazon, T-Mobile and other national employers violated age bias laws by aiming Facebook job ads at younger workers even if they didn't block older workers from applying, three older job seekers said Monday in a memo urging a California federal judge not to dismiss their proposed class suit.
October 11, 2018
Amazon.com Inc. asked a California federal judge on Thursday to nix a retooled proposed class action accusing it of placing job ads on Facebook that were illegally hidden from older workers, saying it never impaired workers from learning or applying for employment.