Originally Posted by
Justdoinmyjob
As a Jan 01 hire, our class was done by age. It wasn't until we started hiring again in 07 that it was changed to SSN because of an age discrimination lawsuit.
The suit must have been between 01 and 07, because all the classes in 07 were SSN from the get go (even though in august the order was reversed due to a misinterpretation of "highest to lowest.")
Most of the people got some money out of it after the reordering of the classes that had previously run, but I didn't get any since my class just rotated around me.