A federal magistrate judge has denied an effort byPricewaterhouseCoopers to seal the number of would-be classmembers in an age discrimination suit that claims theaccounting and consulting firm unlawfully struck older jobapplicants from employment consideration.
The lawsuit, filed last year in U.S. District Court forthe Northern District of California by the AARP FoundationLitigation and the law firm Outten & Golden, alleges the hiringpractices at PwC are discriminatory.
The plaintiff’s attorneys estimated that some 14,000 potentialjob applicants over age 40 could be part of theaffected class. That number, until this week, had beenconfidential.
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