IBM Has Just Been Sued Again by Its Own Staff (This Time a Manager, Stephen P. Gutierrez)
The above report is a culmination of widespread unrest and mass layoffs at IBM and Red Hat (among other bluewashed subsidiaries). This morning someone said (and we agree, we covered this before!) that IBM's severance agreements: "aren’t legally enforceable in most cases. Have your personal attorney check it out."
We previously explained that in the US the NDAs attached to those agreements are also illegal, but who has the money and patience to take IBM to court and not silently settle throughout? (IBM typically tries to hide what happened, fearing the precedents and embarrassing revelations those entail)
"A new federal lawsuit accuses IBM of paying an employee a profit-sharing bonus one day and handing him a termination notice the next," says the report above. "Stephen P. Gutierrez, a former Integrated Service Manager in IBM's Infrastructure Cloud division, filed the suit on March 6, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (Gutierrez v. IBM Corporation, Case No. 1:26-cv-00922-RTG). He is alleging retaliation, age discrimination, national origin discrimination, sex-based wage discrimination, and violations of the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act."
Does this sound familiar? It ought to. Check out the surviving (not yet censored) comments in this thread.
IBM's behaviour towards its staff can prove costly. █