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Applicants Can Sue PricewaterhouseCoopers for Unintended Age Bias
Feb 27, 2017/Media Coverage
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP must defend against claims by a proposed class of rejected 40-and-over job seekers, a federal judge in California ruled. The applicants say the accounting giant’s hiring and other employment practices inadvertently favor younger applicants and deter older ones ( Rabin v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP , 2017 BL 49868, N.D. Cal., No. 16-cv-02276, 2/17/17 ). The decision …
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PwC Must Face Job Applicants’ Age Discrimination Claims
Feb 21, 2017/Media Coverage
PricewaterhouseCoopers on Friday was denied a bid to have a disparate impact claim under federal age discrimination law thrown out in a putative class action over age discrimination toward job applicants, with a California federal judge ruling a reading of U.S. Supreme Court precedent confirms job applicants may bring such claims. U.S. District Judge John …
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PwC’s US firm faces age discrimination claim
Apr 29, 2016/Media Coverage
The case has been brought in a California court by Steve Rabin, a 53-year-old certified public accountant, who is alleging violations of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. According to the complaint: ‘PwC’s culture and practice has distributed the benefits of its enormous success …
Lawsuit accuses PwC of discriminating against older job applicants
Apr 29, 2016/Media Coverage
A lawsuit accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of violating U.S. discrimination law by hiring a “stunningly low” number of people over the age of 40 to maintain a youthful culture has been filed in San Francisco. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court, said the London-based accounting company does virtually all of its recruiting for entry-level …
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