Rabin et al v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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3:16-cv-02276
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March 04, 2020
PwC Strikes $12M Deal To End Job Applicants' Age Bias Suit
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.
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April 08, 2019
PwC Applicants' Age Bias Collective Action Gets Green Light
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.
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September 11, 2018
PwC Blasts Job Applicants' New Cert. Bid In Age Bias Suit
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP urged a California federal judge on Monday not to conditionally certify a proposed class action alleging it discriminates against older job applicants, arguing the applicants' basis for notifying potential class members of the suit is no more viable than one the judge rejected this summer.
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July 26, 2018
PwC Applicants Refused Cert. In Age Bias Dispute
A California federal judge on Thursday declined to sign off on a proposed collective in a suit alleging that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP gives older job applicants short shrift, but gave the plaintiffs behind the suit a month to make their case for going forward with a narrower class.
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February 27, 2018
PwC Job Applicants Seek Cert. In Age Discrimination Row
Job applicants who allege PricewaterhouseCoopers turned them down in favor of younger candidates told a California federal judge Tuesday their age discrimination claims against the accounting firm should be adjudicated on a collective basis, arguing they were subject to the same nationwide hiring policy and culture of ageism.
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February 21, 2017
PwC Must Face Job Applicants' Age Discrimination Claims
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.
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February 09, 2017
PwC Says Job Applicants Can't Sue For Age Discrimination
PricewaterhouseCoopers urged a California federal judge at a hearing Thursday to throw out a putative class action alleging the accounting firm doesn't consider older job applicants, arguing that disparate impact claims under federal age discrimination law can only be brought by existing employees, not prospective ones.
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April 27, 2016
PwC's Hiring Policies Favor Millennials, Class Action Says
PricewaterhouseCoopers on Wednesday was hit with a proposed class and collective action in California federal court accusing the firm of favoring millennials with its hiring policies and discriminating against accounting job applicants who are age 40 or older.