The complaint also alleges that HP managers were given personnel directives to do two things simultaneously: (1) specific numbers of employees to be permanently laid off and (2) specific numbers of requisitions for new hires. Wolf Block Scherr & Solis Cohen, 983 F2d 509, 546 (3rd Cir. Whitman's statements are as one court once put it: "When a major company executive speaks 'everybody listens' in the corporate hierarchy." Ezold v. That's an important part of the future of the company. to make sure that we've got a labor pyramid with lots of young people coming in right out of college and graduate school and early in their careers. That will allow us to right-size our Enterprise Services business. Interviewer: You did announce significant job cuts about a month or so ago. Whitman was more explicit regarding HP's personnel policies:
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If you don't have a whole host of young people who are learning how to do delivery or learning how to do these kinds of things, you will be in for real challenges. And we are working very hard to recalibrate and reshape our labor pyramid so that it looks like a more classical pyramid that you should have in any company and particularly in ES. So, as we think about our overall labor pyramid at Hewlett-Packard, we need to return to a labor pyramid that really looks like a triangle where you have a lot of early career people who bring a lot of knowledge who you're training to move up through your organization, and then people fall out either from a performance perspective or whatever.Īnd over the years, our labor pyramid doesn't look – has become not a triangle. Whitman quoted in the complaint include the following: A review of the complaint shows that it stems in large part from statements by CEO Meg Whitman regarding her goal to transform HP's labor force, getting rid of older employees and aggressively incorporating younger employees. Age discrimination has been charged against Hewlett-Packard in a recently filed lawsuit that proposes to be a nationwide class action for older employees fired since 2012 by the technology giant.
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