IBM is sued for age discrimination by widow of ousted workerHundreds of former IBM employees are suing for age discrimination
Widow Denise Lohnn is suing on behalf of her late husband Jorgen, who killed himself after being fired from the firm in 2016, when he was 57
A company executive allegedly referred to older employees as 'dinobabies' that should be an 'extinct species' in an email quoted in court filings
Another said the company's 'dated maternal workforce' was something that 'must change' , writing that they were 'Not digital natives. A real threat for us'
A spokesperson denied that IBM engaged in mass age discrimination, noting that 37 percent of the company's new hired since 2010 were over the age of 40
The median age of the company's employees was 48 in 2020, the company said in a statement, unchanged since 2010
But IBM had fired as many as 100,000 older employees in 2019, according to a court deposition from Alan Wild, former vice president of human resources
Between 2013 and 2018, according to ProPublica, older employees accounted for 60 percent of job cuts
