Best Buy Faces Lawsuit Over Layoffs

When it announced the outsourcing contract with Accenture, Best Buy said that only 40 of its 820 IT employees would remain with the company.

“According to the lawsuit, 126 IT workers were terminated in June. Stephen Snyder, the Minneapolis-based lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said that 82 of those workers were at least 40 years old — the minimum age required to file an age-discrimination claim. Thirty-one of the plaintiffs were among the workers who were dismissed in June.

The 13 other plaintiffs lost their jobs when Best Buy laid off a total of 25 IT workers last year, according to the lawsuit. Twenty of them were at least 40 years old, Snyder said. The lawsuit noted that another worker turned 40 the day after he was laid off.”

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