If you were a US-based Oracle employee and believe that you have been discriminated against in a recent RIF, you can file an inquiry with the EEOC. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will investigate the complaint and create a charge if they believe there is substantial evidence to do so. In cases where multiple complaints are received, the EEOC can combine charges and work on behalf of a group of employees to resolve charges of discriminatory behavior.
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I was RIF’d back in March 2025, and I had to do some significant work to create my complaint (below). This included summarizing data presented in the OWBPA report using Excel and analyzing the roles and numbers provided, because Oracle does not provide any summary data, only a table. What I found was that Oracle provided obvious errors in its reporting, and when asked to correct, further complicated the problem with more errant data. See below:
PART 1
03/17/2025: Oracle provided an OWBPA report with ineligible roles that did not meet the definition “a list of all employees employed in Oracle America, Inc.’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Organization and eligible to receive severance benefits under Oracle’s severance pay plans.”. I request a corrected report. Per the first report:
- 8,904 employees total
- 225 employees selected to RIF
- 30 employees transferred
- 8,649 employees retained
- 23 employees identified as “unpaid” (HS Student/Intern Unpaid, Post University Student)
05/01/2025: Oracle provides a second OWBPA report, which is either not a snapshot of 3/17/2025, or presents new error data that Oracle needs to explain for 3/17/2025 information provided in the first report. Per the second report:
- 8,983 employees total (note the INCREASE of total eligible employees which should have reduced from first report)
- 225 employees selected to RIF
- 30 employees transferred
- 8,728 employees retained (again, note the INCREASE of 79 additional employees)
- roles for 23 unpaid employees removed in counts (HS Student/Intern Unpaid, Post University Student)
A second request is made to explain the errors presented in the second report, but Oracle refuses to respond, citing pending litigation from my EEOC complaint.
At this point, Oracle is aware that it has provided errant information in OWBPA reporting to employees who were RIF’d in the 03/17/2025 reduction in workforce, and has not provided corrected information. It has not notified employees who were laid off in the RIF of these errors.
- Oracle had the opportunity to correct reporting errors to laid off employees but chose not to do so.
- At my individual request, Oracle provided a second report which also contained errors. When pointed out, Oracle refused to provide explanations or correct errant data.
- Oracle has not contacted any of the 225 US employees who were laid off on 3/17/2025 to notify them that the data provided to them in the OWBPA report was in error.
My complaint is that Oracle is aware of age-related discrimination in its decision to lay off employees on March 17, 2025, and is purposely masking its decision with errant data.
PART 2
Without accurate OWBPA data it will be difficult to state how much age-based discrimination is taking place, but the indication is that Oracle is playing the long game by incrementing RIFs (possibly since August 2020) with goals to lower its average workforce age each time. Over the course of these RIFs it can accomplish its goal of significantly lowering the age of its workforce.
The average age of 225 employees selected for RIF on 03/17/2025 was 49.1. When you look at the list of selected employees, it’s pretty obvious that Oracle prioritized a selection of older employees, then added younger employees in less senior roles.
Job Title, Age, Number of People in Bracket
- Business Analyst 3-Ops, 43, 1
- Business Analyst 3-Ops, 60, 2
- Business Analyst 4-Ops, 57, 1
- Business Analyst 4-Ops, 63, 1
- Business Analyst 5-Ops , 68, 1
- Business Planning Director-Ops, 53, 1
- Business Process Analyst 5, 74, 1
- Course/Curriculum Dev 4-Training, 40, 1
- Customer Service Analyst 2-Support, 68, 1
- Customer Service Snr Manager-Support, 68, 1
- Data Scientist Snr Manager, 35, 1
- Data Services Support A2-IT, 50, 1
- Database Administrator 5-IT, 61, 1
- Facilities Specialist 4, 39, 1
- Field Support Specialist 2, 66, 1
- Field Support Specialist 3, 64, 1
- Field Support Specialist 3, 67, 1
- Field Support Specialist 3, 68, 1
- Field Support Specialist 4, 72, 1
- Field Support Specialist A4, 42, 1
- Hardware Developer 4 , 67, 1
- Hardware Developer 4 , 68, 1
- Hardware Developer 4 , 69, 1
- Hardware Developer 4 , 70, 1
- Hardware Developer 5, 70, 2
- Hardware Developer 5, 72, 1
- Hardware Development Snr Director, 62, 1
- Hardware Development Snr Director, 63, 1
- Hardware Development Snr Manager, 65, 1
- Information Security Snr Director, 52, 1
- Information Security Snr Director, 53, 1
- Information Security Snr Manager, 48, 1
- Inventory Control Analyst 1, 62, 1
- IT Business Implementation Analyst 3, 32, 2
- IT Business Implementation Analyst 3, 58, 1
- IT Business Implementation Analyst 4, 38, 1
- IT Director, 58, 1
- IT Director, 63, 1
- IT Snr Manager, 55, 1
- IT VP, 51, 1
- Logistics Analyst 1, 51, 1
- Logistics Analyst 1, 64, 1
- Marketing Comm / PR Specialist 4, 39, 1
- Network Developer 3, 43, 1
- Network/Telecom Systems Analyst 4-IT, 66, 1
- Operations Program Manager 2, 49, 1
- Process Manufacturing Analyst 1, 61, 1
- Process Manufacturing Analyst 1, 63, 1
- Product Manager/Strategy 4-ProdDev, 31, 1
- Product Manager/Strategy 4-ProdDev, 35, 1
- Product Manager/Strategy 4-ProdDev, 41, 1
- Product Manager/Strategy 4-ProdDev, 45, 1
- Product Manager/Strategy 4-ProdDev, 59, 1
- Product Manager/Strategy 4-ProdDev, 62, 1
- Product Manager/Strategy 5-ProdDev, 39, 1
- Product Manufacturing Analyst 3, 60, 1
- Product Mgmt/Strategy Snr Director-ProdDev, 63, 1
- Product Mgmt/Strategy VP-ProdDev, 50, 1
- Production Service Developer 3, 40, 1
- Production Service Developer 3, 52, 1
- Production Service Systems Administrator 3, 51, 1
- Production Service Systems Administrator 3, 61, 1
- Production Service Systems Administrator 3, 63, 1
- Program Manager 1-ProdDev, 24, 1
- Program Manager 2-ProdDev, 39, 1
- Program Manager 3-ProdDev, 32, 1
- Program Manager 3-ProdDev, 38, 2
- Program Manager 3-ProdDev, 41, 2
- Program Manager 3-ProdDev, 43, 1
- Program Manager 3-ProdDev, 44, 1
- Program Manager 3-ProdDev, 47, 1
- Program Manager 3-ProdDev, 48, 1
- Program Manager 3-ProdDev, 53, 1
- Program Manager 3-ProdDev, 74, 1
- Program Manager 4, 35, 1
- Program Manager 4-ProdDev, 34, 1
- Program Manager 4-ProdDev, 40, 1
- Program Manager 4-ProdDev, 41, 1
- Program Manager 4-ProdDev, 44, 1
- Program Manager 4-ProdDev, 48, 1
- Program Manager 4-ProdDev, 51, 1
- Program Manager 4-ProdDev, 52, 1
- Program Manager 4-ProdDev, 53, 1
- Program Manager 4-ProdDev, 55, 1
- Program Manager 4-ProdDev, 69, 1
- Program Manager 5-ProdDev, 62, 1
- Program Mgmt Sr Manager-ProdDev, 49, 1
- Program Mgmt Sr Manager-ProdDev, 52, 1
- Program Mgmt Sr Manager-ProdDev, 59, 1
- Project Manager 3 – Ops, 61, 1
- Project Manager 4, 60, 1
- Project Manager 4 – Ops, 65, 1
- Project Manager 4 – Ops, 69, 1
- Quality Assurance Specialist 4, 63, 1
- Security Engineer 4, 68, 1
- Senior Administrative Assistant, 65, 1
- Site Reliability Developer 2, 30, 1
- Site Reliability Developer 2, 43, 1
- Site Reliability Developer 3, 47, 1
- Site Reliability Developer 3, 60, 1
- Site Reliability Developer 4, 32, 1
- Site Reliability Developer 4, 41, 1
- Site Reliability Developer 4, 64, 1
- Software Developer – Architect, 60, 1
- Software Developer 1, 22, 1
- Software Developer 1, 24, 4
- Software Developer 1, 25, 2
- Software Developer 1, 26, 1
- Software Developer 1, 27, 1
- Software Developer 1, 29, 1
- Software Developer 1, 30, 1
- Software Developer 1, 33, 1
- Software Developer 1, 35, 1
- Software Developer 1, 40, 1
- Software Developer 2, 26, 1
- Software Developer 2, 27, 1
- Software Developer 2, 29, 3
- Software Developer 2, 30, 4
- Software Developer 2, 31, 3
- Software Developer 2, 32, 1
- Software Developer 2, 33, 1
- Software Developer 2, 34, 2
- Software Developer 2, 35, 1
- Software Developer 3, 29, 1
- Software Developer 3, 31, 2
- Software Developer 3, 34, 1
- Software Developer 3, 37, 1
- Software Developer 3, 38, 2
- Software Developer 3, 43, 3
- Software Developer 3, 44, 1
- Software Developer 3, 48, 1
- Software Developer 3, 50, 1
- Software Developer 3, 62, 2
- Software Developer 4, 35, 1
- Software Developer 4, 44, 2
- Software Developer 4, 46, 1
- Software Developer 4, 47, 1
- Software Developer 4, 48, 1
- Software Developer 4, 53, 2
- Software Developer 4, 59, 1
- Software Developer 4, 60, 1
- Software Developer 4, 64, 1
- Software Developer 4, 66, 1
- Software Developer 4, 67, 1
- Software Developer 4, 70, 1
- Software Developer 5, 45, 1
- Software Developer 5, 48, 1
- Software Developer 5, 64, 1
- Software Development Director, 53, 1
- Software Development Director, 55, 1
- Software Development Director, 57, 1
- Software Development Manager, 50, 1
- Software Development Manager, 56, 1
- Software Development Manager, 59, 1
- Software Development Snr Director, 45, 1
- Software Development Snr Manager, 48, 1
- Software Development VP, 50, 1
- Software Development VP, 52, 2
- Supplier Sourcing Program Manager 4, 59, 1
- Supply Chain Snr Director, 72, 1
- Supply Chain Snr Manager, 59, 1
- Supply Chain VP, 70, 1
- Supply-Demand Planner 3, 55, 1
- System Administrator 4-IT, 52, 1
- System Administrator 4-IT, 55, 1
- System Administrator 4-IT, 57, 1
- System Administrator 4-IT, 59, 1
- Technical Analyst 2-Support, 66, 1
- Technical Analyst 3-Support, 33, 1
- Technical Analyst 3-Support, 35, 1
- Technical Analyst 3-Support, 47, 1
- Technical Analyst 3-Support, 50, 1
- Technical Analyst 3-Support, 59, 1
- Technical Analyst 3-Support, 64, 1
- Technical Analyst 3-Support, 68, 1
- Technical Analyst 4-Support, 58, 1
- Technical Analyst 4-Support, 66, 1
- Test Analyst 2, 47, 1
- User Assistance Developer 2, 34, 1
- User Assistance Developer 3, 55, 1
- User Assistance Developer 3, 57, 1
- User Assistance Developer 4, 54, 1
- User Assistance Developer 4, 55, 1
- User Assistance Developer 4, 60, 1
- User Assistance Developer 4, 77, 1
- User Assistance Developer 5, 50, 1
- User Assistance Developer 5, 57, 1
- User Assistance Developer 5, 58, 1
- User Assistance Director, 61, 1
- User Assistance Snr Director, 59, 1
- User Experience Developer 3-ProdDev, 32, 1
- User Experience Developer 3-ProdDev, 34, 1
- User Experience Developer 3-ProdDev, 36, 2
- User Experience Developer 3-ProdDev, 42, 1
- User Experience Developer 3-ProdDev, 54, 1
- User Experience Developer 4-ProdDev, 33, 1
- User Experience Developer 4-ProdDev, 39, 1
- User Experience Developer 4-ProdDev, 42, 1
- User Experience Developer 4-ProdDev, 45, 1
If Oracle employees can collect accurate OWBPA reports from across all of the RIFs in the US, I am confident that we can show Oracle is systematically targeting older employees to lower its average workforce age across a program of reductions in force. I believe that Oracle is programmatically discriminating against older employees in a long term strategy to cycle its workforce over a period of years. This is why we need to file complaints with the EEOC and collectively work to raise charges against Oracle.
Your severance agreement with Oracle preserves your right to pursue a complaint/charge with the EEOC, which you should exercise.