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Employment Litigation Trend Emerges as DACA Class Action Plaintiffs Settle With Procter & Gamble Over Alleged Hiring Discrimination

Aug 3, 2021 /News Item

As part of the settlement, Procter & Gamble will establish a $1.5 million fund and pay attorney fees up to $1.9 million. A consumer goods manufacturing giant reached a proposed class action settlement with a “dreamer” and his lawyers in Miami federal court, valued around $3.5 million. Juan Carlos Gomez, a professor at Florida International …

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PwC Strikes $12M Deal To End Job Applicants’ Age Bias Suit

Mar 4, 2020/News Item

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has agreed to pay nearly $12 million to a group of unsuccessful job applicants to close the book on a California federal suit accusing the accounting firm of age discrimination. On Tuesday, named plaintiffs Steve Rabin and John Chapman asked U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar for preliminary approval of a deal in …

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Age Discrimination Class Action Settled, Announce PwC LLP, AARP Foundation, and Outten & Golden LLP

Mar 4, 2020/Press Release

PricewaterhouseCoopers, AARP, AARP Foundation, and the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP are pleased to announce that the Plaintiffs and defendant PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) have reached a mutually consensual resolution of all claims in the class and collective action lawsuit Rabin v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, pending in the Northern District of California. In the lawsuit, Plaintiffs alleged …

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PwC Applicants’ Age Bias Collective Action Gets Green Light

Apr 8, 2019/Media Coverage

A California federal judge has granted conditional collective action status to unsuccessful job applicants accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of bias against older candidates, saying the problems that led him to refuse to certify the collective in July had been fixed. U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar granted lead plaintiffs Steve Rabin and John Chapman’s bid for …

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