How much did those four get that won the age dicrimination lawsuit?
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I'm sure the suing employees came out okay. Ford paid them to go away and to stay silent.
First thing I would have done with the money is gone out and bought a Silverado or Ram. Ford doesn't realize that almost all of their sales are from employees and their families. Every employee they alternate alienatev is several sales lost for Ford, and several sales gained for GM and Stellantis.
Treat your customers and employees like family. Empty words, the actions are the opposite.
I wouldn't be surprised if all those who held out to pursue legal recourse have effectively retired earlier than they were planning to, but remember this was all about age discrimination against well compensated employees approach major pension milestones.
I can't picture the lawyers not demanding that those milestones be granted as have been passed as part of the settlement. So they get early retirement and benefiting from a pension calculated as if they hadn't been victims of age discrimination, and don't need to have another job that they can't find. IE they're not "unemployed" but rather retired.
They probably received some salary payback, some damages and are probably still unemployed as their names are associated with an HR lawsuit and companies don't want trouble makers. I hope it was worth the years of stess and anger.
As ususal, the lawyers made the most money.
Ford will settle and seal all the lawsuits. If they are found guilty of discrimination they are by federal law ineligible for government contracts and they need the government to buy fleets of future EV vehicles.
Of course they are, Ford wouldn't want people to realize that holding your own ground (if you can afford it while the lawyers fight it out) is going to be better in the end than taking the horrible severance bribe that requires you relinquish the right to sue.
Details of the settlement were sealed.