July 23, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge hit furniture retailer Ikea with nearly $567,000 in sanctions on Tuesday for deleting emails requested for discovery in a suit filed by a putative class of store workers challenging company policies for alleged age discrimination.
May 08, 2023
A putative class of Ikea store workers challenging company policies for alleged age discrimination has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to sanction the furniture retailer for deleting emails needed for discovery.
January 24, 2020
Two Ikea policies for weighing whether to promote an employee based on future "potential" and willingness to move to another location could have a disparate impact on older workers and can be part of a proposed class action lawsuit, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Thursday.
May 01, 2019
IKEA told a Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday that an employee's collective action alleging that the retailer fails to promote qualified older internal applicants should be trimmed for being too vague and not specifying which policies are at issue.