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IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Firing Thousands

  • Lawyer who battled Amazon, Uber and Google is leading charge
  • Company says workforce changes are about skills, not age
Pedestrians walk past IBM offices in New York.

Pedestrians walk past IBM offices in New York.

Photographer: Craig Warga/Bloomberg

A lawyer known for battling tech giants over the treatment of workers has set her sights on International Business Machines Corp.

Shannon Liss-Riordan on Monday filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan on behalf of three former IBM employees who say the tech giant discriminated against them based on their age 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 champion for employees left behind by powerful tech companies.