February 13, 2023
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Monday that AT&T cannot escape a former worker's proposed collective action alleging the telecommunications company targeted older employees in a series of layoffs, rejecting AT&T's argument that she signed a release form when she was laid off that waived her collective action rights.
March 10, 2022
A former AT&T worker can't pursue class or collective action claims that the company discriminated against older workers, because a severance agreement she fought to get the court to recognize contained language specifically waiving such actions, AT&T has argued.
March 22, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday rejected arguments from AT&T Inc. that a former company manager should be forced into arbitration after filing putative class claims that a round of layoffs enacted two years ago was actually a pretext to oust older workers.
January 31, 2020
A round of layoffs at AT&T in 2019 was actually a pretext for cutting older workers, and the company tried to get them to waive their right to sue with a form that had previously been ruled unenforceable, a proposed class action lawsuit filed Thursday in Pennsylvania federal court says.