Best Buy settles age discrimination lawsuit

Best Buy recently settled an age discrimination lawsuit filed in 2004 by 44 former IT workers who had been laid off, most of them after the electronics retailer outsourced its IT operations to Accenture earlier that year. The lawsuit was filed in connection with layoffs that took place in June 2004, two months after Best Buy announced its deal with Accenture, and with a smaller round of IT job cuts made in October 2003. When the outsourcing deal was announced, Best Buy told its 820 IT workers that only about 40 of them would remain with the retailer. About 650 others were expected to be shifted to Accenture and continue working at Best Buy's offices, while the remaining 130 or so workers were told their jobs would be eliminated. The lawsuit alleged that Best Buy laid off older IT workers in favor of retaining younger ones. The laid-off employees who became plaintiffs in the suit ranged in age from 40 to 71, with an average age of 51.

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