Google, in new federal court papers, is rebutting claims of age discrimination and its handling of two older job applicants who were rejected for positions.

Google insisted in a court filing Friday that its policies “rigorously forbids discrimination of any kind,” including age discrimination. It is fighting an age discrimination lawsuit filed last year by two plaintiffs who were rejected for jobs. Both are over the age of 40.

One plaintiff, Cheryl Fillekes, a programmer, filed a motion in June to make this age discrimination lawsuit a “collective action” case for software engineers, site reliability engineers or systems engineers over the age of 40 who applied for a job at Google, but where rejected. That could broaden the case to include thousands of people.

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